An eastward-flowing Atlantic Ocean current, the Gulf Stream was first noticed by ... as Postmaster General of British America in 1769, Benjamin Franklin received a complaint from the board of ...

This copy of the first chart of the Gulf Stream was printed in 1786, ten years after Benjamin Franklin first drew it up. Library of Congress Benjamin Franklin is known for shaping the Constitution ...

Benjamin Franklin ... colleague in France, 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 ...

In the centuries before air travel, sailors dealt with a related time-sucking natural phenomenon, until a famous American intervened with “A Chart of the Gulf Stream.” Benjamin Franklin and ...

The Gulf Stream, our local gyre, wasn’t even mapped until the late 1700s when Benjamin Franklin became obsessed with charting the path of the “Gulph Stream.” And yes, Franklin is the ...

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 ...

Benjamin Franklin was born on January ... After consulting with a Nantucket whaling captain, Franklin made the first map of the Gulf Stream, a quick current of warm water running north from ...

Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas and the author of several essays on Benjamin Franklin. There was a ...