Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist Product:Postcard 30 June 1908

30 June 1908

Views of the teardrop effect observed during transit as Venus is near the solar edge

Other boats are drydocked next to various buildings

The reference to Colenso relates to Bishop Colenso of Natal whose work

The subject is taken from Keats' poem of the same title

Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist Product:Postcard 30 June 1908Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist, 20th century. Franklin (1706 1790) was a member of the committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Trained as a printer, first in his family's firm in Boston, and later in England, he became a notable publisher but is now better known as one of the founders of the science of electricity. Franklin became interested in the principles of electricity in 1747 and published