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Franklin's Gulf Stream: Science in the Atlantic
March 9, 2006
Joyce E. Chaplin professor, history, Harvard

Benjamin Franklin drew one of the first accurate charts of the Atlantic Gulf Stream enabling ships to take full advantage of the swifter current. Joyce E. Chaplin, Professor of History at Harvard University, explores the impact of Franklin's discovery and how his own observations and experiments fit into the 18th century scientific world in the British colonies.

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