. Scènes de la vie de Benjamin Franklin à Philadelphie. ty. Sur la droite c'est une dynamo électrique, maintenant sous la garde de l'Univer-sité de Pennsylvanie. Jarres Leyden, tels que Franklin utilisé inhis expériences, sont aussi sur les étagères. Épinglée sur thewall entre fenêtre et modèle du poêle est la couverture de Frank-lins mal joué magazine. Les plumes, sable-box, bougie-bâtons, et tous les autres accessoires de la rédaction-table sont [page 31] FRANKLIN L'éditeur de la peint des objets réels qui remontent à l'Franklinsday. En fait, toute la pièce, avec ses meubles, son raide scientifique-scien

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. Scenes from the life of Benjamin Franklin. ty in Philadelphia. On the rightof it is an electric dynamo, now in the custody of the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania. Leyden jars, such as Franklin used inhis experiments, are also on the bookshelves. Pinned on thewall between window and stove model is the cover of Frank-lins ill-starred magazine. The quill pens, sand-box, candle-sticks, and all the other accessories of the writing-table are [page 31] FRANKLIN THE EDITOR painted from the actual objects which date back to Franklinsday. In fact, the whole room, with its stiff furniture, its scien-tific models, its air of utility throughout, is the only sort ofroom in which we can imagine Frankhn at home. This win-dow, for instance, innocent of shade or curtain, must havebeen exactly his idea of a window, something to let in lightand sunshine, in which he beheved as firmly as he disbelievedin unnecessary luxury and things artistic, especially if suchthings obstructed his view of the street and wharves and thebusy world about him. [page 35]. FRANKLIN THE SCIENTIST IN Franklins day men sometimes travelled about fromtown to towTi, especially in Europe, selling shocks atso much apiece. The word electricity was becoming veryinteresting to all the world, although not even the mostlearned philosophers suspected the smallest part of what itwould later mean to mankind. In 1746 a Dr. Spencer came toBoston, lecturing on this subject, and FrankUn happened tohear him. Frankhn had always had an investigating turn ofmind, as was shown, for instance, by the questions brought upfor discussion at his club, the Junto: How may the phenom-ena of vapors be explained? Why does the flame of a candletend upwards in a spire? and so on. Dr. Spencers clumsilyperformed experiments interested Frankhn so much that hebought the apparatus and went to work with it. The following year Mr. P. CoUinson of London sent theLibrary Company of Philadelphia a glass tube such as wasbeing used in generating electricity.

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