In his prime, he once swam from Cheyne Walk to Blackfriars and thought of opening a swimming school for noblemen. As a printer’s apprentice in Boston, he would carry two heavy sets of type up and down stairs while in London his fellow apprentices struggled with a single set. His ingenuity never let up. He was equally resourceful in old age, devising the first bifocals when his sight began to fail. The invention of his which bequeathed the most pleasure to posterity was Franklin’s armonica – a development of the old pastime of rubbing wet fingers around the rims of different-sized glasses to produce notes of different pitch. Franklin’s treadle spun the glasses, allowing the player to produce the most delightful melodies and attracting composers from Mozart and Beethoven to Saint-Saëns and Richard Strauss to write music for the instrument.
Village History
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