Benjamin Franklin was awarded the Godfrey Copley Medal.
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American leading figure Benjamin Franklin created the Franklin Stove.
The US Postal Service was founded.
Louis Timothee became America's first paid librarian.
Benjamin Franklin announced his invention of bifocal eyeglasses.
US Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin, wrote, 'There never was a good war or a bad peace,' in a letter to Josiah Quincy.
