Benjamin Franklin founded the University of Pennsylvania in 1740, now one of the Ivy schools. The University of Pennsylvania claims to be, not the first college (undergraduate only), but the first university (post-undergraduate school) because they founded a medical school in 1765.
No. Printing presses have been around for centuries. The biggest improvement in them came when Johannes Gutenberg (who lived 1400 - 1468, 236 years before Benjamin Franklin was born) was the first European to develop printing with movable type.
Benjamin Franklin's subscription library, "The Library Company of Philadelphia," is the first of its kind in what would become the United States Benjamin Franklin's subscription library, "The Library Company of Philadelphia," is the first of its kind in what would become the United States Before that in 1701, the Anglican Society for the Propagation of the Gospel began collecting books in England to establish church libraries in American Episcopalian Churches. Many churches, which existed before the days of good public libraries, still have church libraries.
The phone number of the Franklin County Library is: 479-667-2724.
The address of the Williamson County Public Library is: 1314 Columbia Ave, Franklin, 37064 3626
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin is credited with starting the first lending library and first fire department in the US. He also invented bifocal glasses and an effective heating stove.
Benjamin Franklin founded the University of Pennsylvania in 1740, now one of the Ivy schools. The University of Pennsylvania claims to be, not the first college (undergraduate only), but the first university (post-undergraduate school) because they founded a medical school in 1765.
Benjamin Franklin started the first library in Philadelphia
The address of the Franklin Public Library is: 118 Main Street, Franklin, 02038 1992
Believing in the importance of self-education, he founded the first public library in America in 1731 and chartered it in 1742 as the Philadelphia Library.
No. Printing presses have been around for centuries. The biggest improvement in them came when Johannes Gutenberg (who lived 1400 - 1468, 236 years before Benjamin Franklin was born) was the first European to develop printing with movable type.
Benjamin Franklin's subscription library, "The Library Company of Philadelphia," is the first of its kind in what would become the United States Benjamin Franklin's subscription library, "The Library Company of Philadelphia," is the first of its kind in what would become the United States Before that in 1701, the Anglican Society for the Propagation of the Gospel began collecting books in England to establish church libraries in American Episcopalian Churches. Many churches, which existed before the days of good public libraries, still have church libraries.
The address of the Franklin Square Public Library is: 19 Lincoln Road, Franklin Square, 11010 3616
The phone number of the Franklin County Library is: 479-667-2724.
The phone number of the Franklin Grove Public Library is: 815-456-2823.