Without vanity, without an ostentatious display of learning, and without any other object than the good of the public, he is always ready to communicate his knowledge to others.
— Benjamin Franklin Early Modern

Electricity experiments, founding father

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Description of himself in a letter to Cadwallader Colden

Date / Period

1752

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Humorous

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https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-04-02-0118

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