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...Marshall Plan, they were the warp and woof of a sturdy foreign policy. And when countries such as France felt that the soft suasion of idealism was lacking, as has recently been the case, it proved harder to attract them to a cause. "America's great historical moments," historian Bernard Bailyn has noted, "have occurred when realism and idealism have been combined, and no one knew this better than Franklin...
Sources: Franklin Institute Science Museum; American Philosophical Society; Bucks County (Pa.) Historical Society; Experiments and Observations on Electricity, by Benjamin Franklin; The Ingenious Dr. Franklin, edited by Nathan G. Goodman; Benjamin Franklin's Science, by I. Bernard Cohen; "The Myth of the Franklin Stove," by Samuel Edgerton, Early American Life magazine, June 1976; Benjamin Franklin, a Biographical Companion, by Jennifer L. Durham; The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Yale University Press; Benjamin Franklin, by Walter Isaacson
When the secret finally got out, it had sweeping repercussions. As Harvard historian of science I. Bernard Cohen (who died June 20) has pointed out, Franklin's experiment showed that electricity was not just an amusing "bizarrery" but a force of nature, like gravity. It also illustrated an Enlightenment ideal: that pure science--science done for the joy of exploring nature--could have enormous practical consequences, as shown by the lightning rod. The invention drastically reduced a perennial fire threat to churches and other tall structures. Most profoundly, it shook the belief that lightning was a sign...
...Bernard Cohen ’37, a Harvard professor who founded the Department of the History and Science in 1966, died June 20 at his home in Waltham, Mass...
Next, Hadid built some small but choice projects, including a ski jump--cafe in Innsbruck, Austria, that signs the sky with a swooping slalom. But especially since winning the Cincinnati commission in 1998--in a competition in which she beat out both Libeskind and Bernard Tschumi--Hadid has at last been getting jobs of a size that match her gifts, to say nothing of her press. There's another contemporary art center in Rome, offices and a factory for BMW in Leipzig, Germany, and a master plan for an enormous science city in Singapore. Her next American project...