Noble Ambitions: The Founding of the Franklin Institute
Posted by Kershaw Burbank on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Noble Ambitions: The Founding of the Franklin Institute In the minds of its founders, the Franklin Institute was built on noble ambitions,” historian Bruce Sinclair has written. And born of a young man’s fury, it might be added. In 1823, twenty-two year old Samuel Vaughan Merrick was denied membership in a Philadelphia mechanics’ association. A number of similar organizations had sprung up in the early part of the nineteenth...read more