Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (84 page)
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Authors: Walter Isaacson
Tags: #Azizex666, #General, #United States, #Historical, #Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), #Biography & Autobiography, #History
Civic Activities
BF on
colleges
community associations
fire brigade
fund-raising
hospitals
insurance association
Junto,
see
Junto (Leather Apron Club)
libraries
militia
moral perfection project
police patrols
post office reform
self-improvement and
street maintenance
welfare
Inventions
bifocal glasses
copperplate press design
copy machine design
daylight savings idea
hot water system design
light globe model
lightning rod
mechanical arm
musical instrument
new words
phonetic alphabet
storage battery
stove
street lamp design
swimming pads
typeface
urinary catheter
Scientific Interests
air currents
assessment of
BF’s writing style and
color
common cold
electricity,
see
electricity
evaporation
Gulf Stream
heat
hull design
importance and significance of
lead poisoning
magnetism
maritime topics
meteorology
mock essays on
population growth
pragmatism of
refrigeration
saltiness of oceans
ship speeds in canals
smoky chimneys
study of exercise
weather forecasting
Franklin, Benjamin (BF’s uncle)
Franklin, Deborah Read (BF’s wife)
BF’s common-law marriage with
BF’s correspondence with
BF’s flirtations and
BF’s relationship with
children of;
see also
specific children
death of
home defended by
personality of
Strahan’s letters to
stroke suffered by
Franklin, Ebenezer (BF’s brother)
Franklin, Elizabeth Downes (BF’s daughter-in-law)
Franklin, Ellen (BF’s granddaughter)
Franklin, Francis Folger (Franky) (BF’s son)
Franklin, Henry (BF’s great-grandfather)
Franklin, James (BF’s brother)
BF’s reconciliation with
Franklin, Jane (BF’s sister)
Franklin, John (BF’s brother)
Franklin, John (BF’s uncle)
Franklin, Josiah (BF’s father)
BF’s education and
BF’s printing venture and
in chandler trade
character of
children of
first marriage of
library of
in migration to America
second marriage of
Franklin, Josiah, Jr. (BF’s half-brother)
Franklin, Mary (BF’s sister)
Franklin, Peter (BF’s brother)
Franklin, Sally (BF’s cousin)
Franklin, Samuel (BF’s cousin)
Franklin, Sarah (BF’s sister)
Franklin, Sarah “Sally,”
see
Bache, Sarah Franklin “Sally”
Franklin, Theodore (BF’s great-grandson)
Franklin, Thomas (BF’s great-great-grandfather)
Franklin, Thomas, II (BF’s grandfather)
Franklin, Thomas, III (BF’s uncle)
Franklin, William (BF’s son)
appointed governor of New Jersey
Asgill affair and
BF’s correspondence with
BF’s relationship with
in BF’s will
in Braddock expedition
death of
in flight to England
Graeme courtship and
illegitimate children of
kite experiment and
in London mission
loyalist outlook of
marriage of
in Scotland
Shelburne’s meeting with
Temple Franklin’s relationship with
in Trevose meeting
trial of
Franklin, William Temple (BF’s grandson)
BF’s relationship with
birth of
dandyish behavior of
illegitimate son of
Lee-BF feud and
in Paris mission
peace negotiations and
Polly Stevenson and
in visit to England
William Franklin’s relationship with
Franklin, The
(barge)
“Franklin Covey Organizers,”
Franklin Drawing Electricity From the Sky
(West)
Franklin family:
dissenting streak of
genealogical records of
in migration to America
religion and
traits of
Franklin Gothic (typeface)
Franklin Institute
Franklin Union
Frederick II, King of Prussia
Freemasons
free press
free speech
free will
Freke, John
French and Indian War
French Revolution
“Friendly Societies” (Defoe)
Gadsen, Christopher
Gage, Thomas
Galileo Galilee
Galloway, Joseph
Garrick, David
Gazette
(Amiens)
Gazetteer
General Magazine
Gentleman’s Magazine
George II, King of England
George III, King of England
Georgia
Germany
Gerry, Elbridge
Gibraltar
Gilded Age
“God and Liberty” benediction
Godfrey, Mrs. Thomas
Godfrey, Thomas
Goode, Wilson
Grace, Robert
Graeme, Elizabeth
Graeme, Thomas
Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons
Grand Ohio Company
Granville, Lord
Great Awakening
Great Britain
BF’s Paris mission and
in peace negotiations
see
Anglo-American peace negotiations of 1782
Staten Island summit and
Great Depression
Great Seal
Greene, Catherine Ray
Greene, William
Grenville, George
Grenville, Thomas
Griswold, A. Whitney
Guillotin, Joseph-Ignace
Gulf Stream
Hadley, John
Hall, David
Hamilton, Alexander
Hamilton, Andrew
Hamilton, James
Hancock, John
Harper’s
Hartley, David
Harvard College
Hauksbee, Francis
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
“Heads of Complaint” (Franklin)
Hell-Fire Club
Helvétius, Anne-Catherine
Helvétius, Claude-Adrien
Hemphill, Samuel
Henry, Patrick
Henry VIII, King of England
Herbert, Eugenia
Herbert of Cherbury, Lord
Herschbach, Dudley
Hewson, Elizabeth
Hewson, Mary Stevenson “Polly,”
death of
marriage of
Temple Franklin and
Hewson, Tom
Hewson, William (father)
Hewson, William (son)
Hillsborough, Lord
“Hints for a Conversation” (Franklin)
History and Present State of Electricity, The
(Priestley)
History of England
(Berkeley)
Homer
Honest Whigs
hospitals
hot-air balloons
Houdon, Jean-Antoine
House of Burgesses, Virginia
House of Commons, British
House of Lords, British
House of Representatives Massachusetts
House of Representatives, U.S.
Howe, Caroline
Howe, Richard
Howe, William
Howells, William Dean
How to Win Friends and Influence People
(Carnegie)
“Hue and Cry after the Busy-Body” (Keimer)
Hughes, John
hull design
Hume, David
“Hume’s fork,”
Hunt, Leigh
Hunter, William
Hutchinson, Thomas
Stamp Act crisis and
Hutton, James
Hyde, Lord
Illinois Company
Indiana Company
Indians
in Carlyle conference
Paxton Boys uprising and
Proprietors and
see also specific tribes
Industrial Revolution
“Information to Those Who Would Remove to America” (Franklin)
Ingenhousz, Jan
insurance associations
“Interest of Great Britain Considered with Regard to Her Colonies” (Franklin)
Ireland
Iroquois confederacy
Israel Potter
(Melville)
Izard, Ralph
Jackson, James
Jackson, Richard
Jay, John
Jefferson, Thomas
Great Seal and
in Paris mission
Jeffrey, Francis, Lord
Jenkins Ear, War of
Jerman, John
Jews
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Johonnot, Samuel
Jones, John Paul
Lafayette’s proposed attack and
rape incident and