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A typewritten news article on Massillon, Ohio resident Captain Folger, a whaling-ship captain originally from Nantucket who, in 1769, informed Benjamin Franklin in London of the existence of the Gulf Stream and drew a rough map of the stream for Franklin. Franklin printed the sketch as a map for the use of packet captains and became the first authority to inform the wider world about the Gulf Stream.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

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Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1706] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a drafter and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the first United States postmaster general. As a scientist, he was a major figure in ...

Folger, Mayhew, d. 1828.

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