Jeffrey’s Reviews > Benjamin Franklin: An American Life > Status Update

In a chess game with the duchess of Bourbon, she made a move which exposed her king and in defiance of the rules, Franklin captured the King.
She responded “here we don’t capture the King“ to which Franklin replied “in America we do!“

Enjoying Paris 1778

In colonial America, it was sinful to look idol, in France it was vulgar to look busy

Gettin to be Revolution time!

BF invented the glass armonica - a series of glass cylinders played with a wet finger like the sounds made on a wine glass. It was all the rage and Marie Antoinette took lessons for the instrument and Mozart and Beethoven both wrote pieces for it!!

1750s - London 750,000, philadelphia 20,000!
(Bejing 900.000)

Ch 6 - Inventor , details several experiments and gave more background of the development of the lightning rod and the kite experiment

Has made enough to be a self made gentleman, is post master general in philadelphia , has his print shop , can produce books, a means of distribution - quite the vertical integration.
Master of practicality