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Post by kevinharrell on Nov 10, 2014 6:18:58 GMT -5
Who is more macho? Ben Franklin  Leonardo da Vinci  |
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Post by ricardoguitars on Nov 10, 2014 8:17:18 GMT -5
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Post by SylvreKat on Nov 10, 2014 9:50:11 GMT -5
Gotta' go Leo. He was an amazing artist, as well as a scientist like Ben. Plus he has a ninja turtle named after him.
>'Kat
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Post by flyangler on Nov 11, 2014 7:59:27 GMT -5
Gotta go with Leonardo, great beard and cool hat.
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Post by scooter on Nov 11, 2014 16:41:56 GMT -5
Most people in colonial Pennsylvania were content to do their reading in a simple wooden chair. Ben Franklin, on the other hand, insisted on kicking back in a reading chair fitted with a foot-powered fan. If he needed to grab another book from a high shelf, he simply flipped up the seat of his specially engineered library chair, transforming it into a small step ladder. To check the time, he glanced at a bizarre one-handed clock of his own design that only used three gears to keep time. Franklin was clearly a man who never stopped inventing. Between running a print shop, engineering the U.S. postal system, starting America's first lending library, and helping sow the seeds of the American Revolution, Franklin also found time to draw up a vast collection of new devices. What's more, he never patented a single one. Although the decision likely cost him a fortune, Franklin saw his inventions as gifts to the public. "That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously," he wrote in his autobiography. Pretty good for a bored-looking guy on the $100 bill. Franklin's inventions are all models of practicality. It's one thing for a team of engineers to design the Segway, but quite another for an elderly, 18th century man to think of throwing a set of stairs on a library chair. Most of the items in this list likely had fellow colonists slapping their foreheads and exclaiming, "Why didn't I think of that?" science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/famous-inventors/10-ben-franklin-inventions.htmThis man was a force of nature.  |
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Post by spandi on Nov 11, 2014 17:01:33 GMT -5
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Post by wheelbender6 on Nov 11, 2014 19:12:49 GMT -5
Ben, because he coined the phase, "The existence of beer is proof that God loves us".
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Post by scooter on Nov 12, 2014 2:16:27 GMT -5
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Post by oldchopperguy on Nov 12, 2014 18:40:01 GMT -5
Gotta go with Ben, even though he was a "Liberal" and I'm "Conservative"... And ME being an artist named Leo to boot... Shame on me... LOL!
He messed with Europe enough to divert men and resources to the extent that he REALLY helped win our war of independence... And... He was such a ladies' man that the king of France had urinals made with Ben's face at the bottom! Cheesh, talk about being "Peed on"... And, acknowledging his own prowess with the galz (and the CONSEQUENSES thereof) he went and invented condoms... or so the story goes anyway.
Quite a character!
Leo (still conservative, but appreciating Ben... ESPECIALLY those "DEAD BENJAMINS") in Texas
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Post by spandi on Nov 13, 2014 0:51:53 GMT -5
Hmmm. So maybe that's why the Mona Lisa is so "enigmatic"?   |
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