Dr. Robert Allison
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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Thanks Ira, it's great to be here.
Because he was, actually the great thing about Franklin for scientists is he wrote things down.
He recorded a protocol.
Franklin came to Boston, he left, he grew up in Boston.
Philadelphia is going to say the revolution began there.
We know it began here.
We like to say the revolution happened in Massachusetts.
They went to Philadelphia to fill out the paperwork.
Franklin grew up in Boston, ran away from home when he was 16, went to Philadelphia, and brought to Philadelphia a lot of the things he had learned in Boston.
He develops in Philadelphia.
But he comes back to Boston in the 1740s, sees Dr. Spence demonstrating this electrical apparatus we can talk about later.
And he is fascinated with this, the electrical fluid.
He buys the apparatus from Spence, goes to Philadelphia.
He and a group of guys get together to experiment with the electrical fluid.
And Franklin invented a lot of the words we still use for things involving the electrical fluid.
Like what do you call guys who work with electricity?
That's what these guys were.
Franklin is experimenting with these things, along with a group of other guys who are doing things, and he writes down the protocols for everything they're doing so they can be replicated.
So he takes electricity, which had been a parlor trick, and turns it into a science.
He did leave an extensive paper trail.
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