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Health is Wealth: The Alkaline Paleo Diet for Prosperity
BF realized weather was electrical. The wind could be blowing one way, while a storm moved the other direction, due to the Coriolos or Euler effects of rotating air masses, which Newton in his laws of inertial motion did not address. (Incidentally, they rotate clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and Counter-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.) BF flew the famous kite with the key in the thunderstorm storm with the Leyden Jar battery cell capacitor. He knew enough to insulate himself to not be electrocuted. The Franklin Museum had a Focault Pendulum and lightning generator. Now we have HAARP.
BF was a civic leader who founded the first privately owned lending library, the Library Company, which exists to this day. He paved roads for health and built the first firehouse in Pennsylvania, the Union Fire Company. He chartered the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in America.
BF printed counterfeit-proof currency for New Jersey and used restraint in the money supply growth to prevent deflation without causing inflation. He organized the Pennsylvania Militia.
BF was the first President of the American Philosophical Society, Pennsylvania soldier and President, abolitionist, Postmaster, statesman and American ambassador diplomat who traveled to Britain and France.
BF was an enlightened founding father and political philosopher who supported the Boston Tea Party, Continental Congresses and Sons of Liberty, although his son remained a loyalist.
BF shaped the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, signing both. He helped design the Great Seal with E Pluribus Unum, Out of many, One.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Seal_of_the_United_States
BF’s picture is still on the $100 Bill.
BF bequeathed £1,000 (about $4,400 at the time) each to the cities of Boston and Philadelphia, in trust to gather interest for 200 years.
The idea began in 1785 when the French mathematician Charles-Joseph Mathon de la Cour, who admired Franklin greatly, wrote a friendly parody of Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack called Fortunate Richard.
