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Dash, Joan.
DANGEROUS ENGINE : BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, FROM SCIENTIST TO DIPLOMAT
New York : Frances Foster Books, 2006
IL 5-8, RL 5.8
ISBN 0374306699
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 Everyone knows Ben Franklin discovered electricity but the next time you go to the beach remember who invented swim fins. Get to know the many faces of our Mr. Franklin, inventor, scientist, diplomat, journalist and even political cartoonist. (Jean B. Bellavance for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, 2006-2007)
SUBJECTS:     United States -- Foreign relations -- 1775-1783.
                        Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
                        Statesmen.
                        Scientists.
                        Inventors.
                        Printers.
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