Benjamin Franklin, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Benjamin Franklin comes up
Paul Graham's Essays Part III
- ▶ 16:49 David Senra Benjamin Franklin learned to write by summarizing the points in the essays of Addison and Steele and then trying to reproduce them.
The Biography of Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century)
- ▶ 4:40 David Senra It says he was the most politically powerful inventor in America since Benjamin Franklin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:53 David Senra Remember this part because he's going to contrast the way people are being taught with what the education, the self-education from Leonardo da Vinci and Ben Franklin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:26 David Senra Perhaps no inventor since Benjamin Franklin had exerted such a direct effect on American political life.
The Autobiography of Vannevar Bush
- ▶ 40:55 David Senra The whole history of the United States has been marked by that fact, from the days of Benjamin Franklin or Eli Whitney to our own.
The Biography of Thomas Edison
- ▶ 1:07:50 David Senra The reason he is important to study is because he was called the 20th century's Ben Franklin.