... of scientific and intellectual research. Jefferson invented a decoding device, a lap desk, and an improved type of moldboard plow. His collection of more than 6,400 books became a major part of the Library of Congress. Jefferson revised Virginia's laws and founded its state university. He developed the decimal system of coinage that allows Americans to keep accounts in dollars and cents. He compiled ... . She traveled widely through New England and the Midwest on speaking tours. Her deep voice, quick wit, and inspiring faith helped spread her fame. Baumfree was born a slave in Ulster Cou...

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... Read as they live life to the fullest, always having fun and always going broke. Franklin, meanwhile, befriends a man named Wilcox, and together they work out a deal for a small lending library, and idea which will come to greater fruition back in Philadelphia. Franklin prints a pamphlet called A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain. The pamphlet is read by a well known ... sweetheart, Miss Read, on September 1, 1730. It is her second marriage; her first husband abandoned her. She helps Franklin in his "first project of a public nature": a subscription library, which...

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... sweetheart, Miss Read, on September 1, 1730. It was her second marriage; her first husband abandoned her. She helped Franklin in his "first project of a public nature": a subscription library, which Franklin founds as the first library in America. "These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesman and farmers as intelligent as most gentleman from other countries, and ... perhaps have contributed in some degree to the stand so generally made throughout the colonies in defense of their privileges." His library, he wrote, helped "reading bec...

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