A FRANKLIN STOVE
After a model in the rooms of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia
Returns to Philadelphia and marries
The next year a Philadelphia merchant persuaded Franklin to return to America to become his clerk. But in a few years he went to work again at his old trade as printer, and in a short time became the editor of the Pennsylvania Gazette.
Franklin had already married Miss Reed, the young lady who had laughed at him for making a show of himself on his first day in Philadelphia.
Founds three great institutions
78. A Rising Young Man. He was now a rising young man in the old Quaker city. From year to year he did many things to help others. He started a circulating library, the first in America, out of which has grown the Philadelphia Public Library. He founded a school which has become the great University of Pennsylvania, and a society, called the American Philosophical Society, which still holds important meetings.
Invents a stove
Forms the first fire department
Franklin improved the heating of houses by inventing the "Franklin stove," but refused to take out a patent and thus make himself rich at other people's expense. He also formed the first "fire department" in any American town.