Communications, 1786-1809.

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Communications, 1786-1809.

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These records are letters and technical drawings concerning various apparatuses for homes and businesses. They are a very small portion of the 560 "communications" kept by the Society in 11 volumes under 7 subject headings. This film only includes 5 items classed under "Trade, Navigation, Manufactures, Agriculture, Economics;" and 6 items classed under "Mechanics, Machinery, and Engineering."

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American Philosophical Society

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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...