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100 1  Dash, Joan. 
245 12 A dangerous engine :|bBenjamin Franklin, from scientist to
       diplomat /|cJoan Dash ; pictures by Dušan Petričić. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bFrances Foster Books,|c2006. 
300    246 pages:|billustrations ;|c21 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-240) and 
       index. 
505 0  At home in the laboratory: Dangling boy -- Elektor and 
       Elektron -- King's picture -- Jar -- Magically magic 
       squares -- "Let the experiment be made" -- Lightning 
       electrifies France -- Puzzling kite -- Change of direction
       -- At large in the world: Pennsylvania's man in London -- 
       Questions -- Franklin under siege -- To France on a secret
       mission -- Astonishing news from Saratoga -- Rough 
       beginnings -- Wounding of a proud man -- "Oh, God! It's 
       all over!" -- Making peace -- Coming home -- Bibliography 
       -- Source notes -- Index. 
520    At the time of his famous kite experiment, Benjamin 
       Franklin was unaware that his theories about electricity 
       had already made him a celebrity all over Europe, 
       especially in France, where fashionable circles loved to 
       discuss scientific discovery. Admired by the French court 
       and beloved by French citizens, Franklin effectively 
       became America's first foreign diplomat, later helping to 
       enlist France's military and financial support for the 
       American Revolution. A father of the revolution and a 
       signer of the Constitution, Franklin was a lightning rod 
       in political circles - "a dangerous Engine," according to 
       a critic. And although he devoted the last twenty-five 
       years of his life to affairs of state, his first love was 
       always science. Handsome pen-and-ink drawings highlight 
       moments in this revolutionary thinker's life. 
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650  0 Statesmen|zUnited States|vBiography|vJuvenile literature. 
650  0 Scientists|zUnited States|vBiography|vJuvenile literature.
650  0 Inventors|zUnited States|vBiography|vJuvenile literature. 
650  0 Printers|zUnited States|vBiography|vJuvenile literature. 
651  0 United States|xForeign relations|y1775-1783|vJuvenile 
       literature. 
700 1  Petričić, Dušan,|eillustrator. 
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