Benjamin Franklin and his cousin, Timothy Folger, are credited with naming and mapping the Gulf Stream for the first time—the warm, strong ocean current that pushes northeast from the Gulf of ...

Benjamin Franklin’s perspicacity ... in which Franklin describes the process by which he came to produce the world’s first map of the Gulf Stream. It’s worth pointing out that the Gulf ...

On an interesting note, Franklin created the first map of the Gulf Stream under the name of Benjamin Franklin and not that of Silence Dogood or Polly Banker. Here is Franklin’s drawing of the ...

This copy of the first chart of the Gulf Stream was printed in 1786, ten years after Benjamin Franklin ... “But Franklin was the one with the good instincts to map it, and that, combined with ...

However, while serving as Postmaster General of British America in 1769, Benjamin Franklin received ... a nautical chart, Franklin then had the first-ever map of the Gulf Stream printed, with ...

Most return voyages to Europe took advantage of at least part of the Gulf Stream to speed their journey. In his role as deputy postmaster of the British American colonies, Benjamin Franklin had a ...

A map might help ... By all accounts, the Ben Franklin mission was a success. The Gulf Stream had never been analyzed so deeply. Crew members made 900,000 measurements of temperature, salinity ...

For many, the iconic image of Benjamin Franklin ... is just a sample of Franklin's quirkier brainstorms. Perhaps not as famous as his theories on electricity or the Gulf Stream, their purpose ...

A map might help ... By all accounts, the Ben Franklin mission was a success. The Gulf Stream had never been analyzed so deeply. Crew members made 900,000 measurements of temperature, salinity ...