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Historians have produced some evidence to suggest that others may have come before him in the invention; however, a correspondence between George Whatley and John Fenno, editor of the Gazette of the United States, suggested that Franklin had indeed invented bifocals, and perhaps 50 years earlier than had been originally thought. [2]
Edward Bartholomew Bancroft (January 20, 1745 [O.S. January 9, 1744] [1] – September 7, 1821) was an American physician and chemist who became a double agent, spying for both the United States and Great Britain while serving as secretary to the American commission in Paris during the American Revolutionary War.
Franklin punned that compared to his ruminations on flatulence, other scientific investigations were "scarcely worth a FART-HING" "A Letter to a Royal Academy" [1] (sometimes "A Letter to a Royal Academy about Farting" or "Fart Proudly" [2] [3]) is the name of an essay about flatulence written by Benjamin Franklin c. 1781 while he was living abroad as United States Ambassador to France. [1]
Advertisement for the original company in 1906. Miles Laboratories was founded as the Dr. Miles Medical Company in Elkhart, Indiana, in 1884 by Dr. Franklin L. Miles, a specialist in the treatment of eye and ear disorders, with an interest in the connection of the nervous system to overall health.
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Man with glasses. A woman with glasses. Glasses, also known as eyeglasses or spectacles, are vision eyewear with clear or tinted lenses mounted in a frame that holds them in front of a person's eyes, typically utilizing a bridge over the nose and hinged arms, known as temples or temple pieces, that rest over the ears for support.
Dr. Franklin's Island is a young adult science fiction book by Ann Halam published in 2001. It is narrated in the first person. [1] Loosely based on H. G. Wells' 1896 novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, [2] it tells the story of three teenagers who end up on an island owned by Dr. Franklin, a brilliant but insane scientist, who wants to use them as specimens for his transgenic experiments.
Edward Claus Franklin (April 14, 1928 – February 20, 1982) was a pioneering American immunologist and physician.He made major gains in the study of the aging process with contributions that led to the discovery of a group of abnormal protein aggregates known as amyloids, and played a key role in the fight against Arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease ...