A freethinker from a young age, eleven-year-old Benjamin Franklin created his first invention--swim fins--at a time when swimming was rare and considered unhealthy. Includes a time line of Benjamin Franklin's life.
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call number/section: 920, 1000, 973.3
subjects: franklin, benjamin, 1706-1790, fiction, juvenile fiction, swimming, fiction, inventors, inventions, childhood and youth, engineers
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Rosenstock, Barb
A freethinker from a young age, eleven-year-old Benjamin Franklin created his first invention--swim fins--at a time when swimming was rare and considered unhealthy. Includes a time line of Benjamin Franklin's life.
Schools: 30
Rosenstock, Barb
Retells the story of the famous thinker's first invention as a young Ben Franklin, troubled by the fact that fish swim better than he does, tries to invent a way to swim more fluidly.
Schools: 1