Dr. Robert Allison
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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And the other guys in Franklin's circle in Philadelphia, and remember, Franklin was a guy who was, he was a printer.
So he knew how to set type and he was always proud of the fact that he could do this very fast.
The other guys in his circle are guys who are artisans or they would call them manufacturers.
They build things.
So a guy who knows how to make glass jars and a big facet of making electricity is making glass tubes.
So there's someone who is a glass maker.
There's another guy, a watchmaker.
Other people who work with their hands are skilled at this or doing this.
You're not going to merchants or the ministry.
There are a couple of ministers involved in this.
The more learned professions aren't the tinkerers, but they do, like Professor Winthrop, have certain ideas about things.
And Winthrop...
I have to say, having read his lectures, which he published at the time, he would have been a very good communicator because even I can understand what he is saying about how things work.
Yeah, go ahead.
No, go on, Ira.
They're thinking about why things are working in a certain way.
And by the way, this is what you would have called anyone who is a natural philosopher.
Sir Isaac Newton or Voltaire is someone we probably don't think of as a natural philosopher.
But it is thanks to Voltaire, we know how gravity works.
What's the famous story about Isaac Newton?
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