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Lecture--Franklin's Gulf Stream: Science in the Atlantic PDF Print E-mail
Written by Joyce E. Chaplin   

Joyce E. Chaplin, professor, history, Harvard University, speaks at Old South Meeting House,
March 9, 2006

Benjamin Franklin drew one of the first accurate charts of the Atlantic Gulf Stream enabling ships to take full advantage of the swifter current. Joyce E. Chaplin, Professor of History at Harvard University, explores the impact of Franklin's discovery and how his own observations and experiments fit into the 18th century scientific world in the British colonies.

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