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17 unusual facts about Franklin Institute


Budd BB-1 Pioneer

In 1934 its fabric and lower wing were removed, and it was placed on permanent display outside the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Charles Baskerville

He was one of the most constant attendants on the meetings of the American Chemical Society, also a Fellow of the London Chemical Society, member of the Society of Chemical Industry, of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Electrochemical Society, the Washington and New York Academies of Science, the Franklin Institute, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dick Morley

and engineer, his peers have acknowledged his contributions with numerous awards from groups such as Inc. magazine, the Franklin Institute, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the Engineering Society of Detroit .

Eugene C. Bingham

He was awarded the Franklin Institute's Certificate of Merit in 1921 for his variable pressure viscometer.

Goodyear Inflatoplane

Goodyear donated two Inflatoplanes for museum display at the end of the project, one to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and one to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Grover Cleveland Bergdoll

After 748 flights it was placed in storage, and in 1936 it was donated to the Franklin Institute.

Henry Selby Hele-Shaw

He was awarded the Franklin Institute's Certificate of Merit in 1933.

Interstate 676

It immediately crosses the Schuylkill River on the Vine Street Expressway Bridge and comes to an interchange with 23rd Street and 22nd Street and the Ben Franklin Parkway that has access to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Franklin Institute.

Ken Hakuta

He received the Inventor of the Year Award from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

Neutron capture therapy of cancer

In 1936, G.L. Locher, a scientist at the Franklin Institute in Pennsylvania, realized the therapeutic potential of this discovery and suggested that neutron capture could be used to treat cancer.

Samuel Vaughan Merrick

He subsequently studied engineering, and in 1824 founded with chemist, William Keating, The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts.

Solar compass

The instrument was then submitted to a committee at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

Steve Baumann

Baumann has held a number of executive positions including the Vice President of Education and Programs at the Liberty Science Center and the Director of Educational Technology Programs at the The Franklin Institute Science Museum.

United States Standard thread

William Sellers originally developed the USS thread, and set forth many of its details in his paper, "A System of Screw Threads and Nuts", presented in April 1864 to the Franklin Institute.

Walter S. Jeffries

He graduated from the Atlantic City Business College in 1909 and was also graduated in celestial navigation from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 1943.

William Bell Wait

He received the John Scott most deserving Medal from the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia in 1900 for his inventions.

Yakir Aharonov

1991: The Elliott Cresson MedalThe Franklin Institute


Arthur B. McDonald

McDonald and Yoji Totsuka were awarded the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics "for discovering that the three known types of elementary particles called neutrinos change into one another when traveling over sufficiently long distances, and that neutrinos have mass".

Charles Bittinger

For example, in 1929, he created a series of murals, depicting stages in the life of Benjamin Franklin, for the Franklin Institute.

Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Ancient Times

The exhibition was created by the Israel Antiquities Authority with items from the Israel National Treasures Department, and is produced by Discovery Times Square and the Franklin Institute.

George Karreman

Karreman was also a member of several prestigious scientific societies, including the American Physiological Society, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Franklin Institute, the Society for Supramolecular Biology, Sigma Xi, the Physiological Society of Philadelphia, and the Society for Vascular System Dynamics.

Gordon Danby

Gordon T. Danby is an American physicist notable (together with Dr. James R. Powell) for his work on superconducting Maglev, for which he shared the Franklin Institute 'Medal 2000 for Engineering'.

James R. Powell

James R. Powell is an American physicist notable — together with Dr. Gordon Danby — for his work on superconducting Maglev, for which he shared the Franklin Institute "Medal 2000 for Engineering".

Kenneth Bullington

Bullington received the 1956 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award "for his contributions to the knowledge of tropospheric transmission beyond the horizon, and to the application of the principles of such transmission to practical communications systems", and the Franklin Institute's 1956 Stuart Ballantine Medal for his studies of space communications.

Patrick Bernard Delany

He was awarded gold medals at the International Inventions Exhibition in London (1885), at the Pan-American Exposition (1901), and at the St. Louis Exposition (1904), the Elliott Cresson Medal twice, and the John Scott medal of the Franklin Institute.

Stuart Ballantine

Ballantine held more than 30 patents, and was a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Acoustical Society of America, and the Institute of Radio Engineers, as well as a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Franklin Institute.

Zvi Hashin

In 2012, he won the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering, for his research on Micro-mechanics of failure of Fibre-reinforced plastic.