A science journalism article recounting how Benjamin Franklin, as a colonial postmaster in the 1760s, investigated why British mail packets crossed the Atlantic more slowly than American merchant ships, learned of the Gulf Stream from his cousin the whaling captain Timothy Folger, and printed the first chart of the current.
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PublisherIFLScience
URLhttps://www.iflscience.com/how-benjamin-franklin-charted-the-gulf-stream-74847
Source Typereference
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