Junto

Japanese: Junto
Junto

…However, he called himself “Franklin the Printer” throughout his life. In 1727, he organized a reading and discussion club called “Junto”, and in 1731, he ran America’s first traveling library, in 1736, he organized a firefighters’ association, in 1743, he founded the American Academy of Sciences, and in 1751, he founded the Philadelphia Academy (the precursor to the University of Pennsylvania) with the idea of ​​establishing a modern school without religious affiliation. Franklin also liked to engage in scientific research and inventions himself, and in 1742, he invented the so-called Franklin stove (a front-opening iron stove). After many years of research on electricity, in 1752, he famously used a kite to conduct an experiment to prove the identity of lightning and electricity, but the year before that, he had published a paper on the nature of electricity. …

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Japanese:

…しかし,生涯〈印刷業者フランクリン〉と自称した。 1727年にすでに〈ジャントーJunto〉と称する読書・討論クラブを組織していたが,31年にはアメリカ最初の巡回図書館を経営,36年には消防組合を組織,43年にはアメリカ学術協会を設立,51年には宗教と関係のない近代的学校の設立を考えフィラデルフィア・アカデミー(ペンシルベニア大学の前身)を創立した。フランクリンはまた自分自身で科学の研究や発明に従事することを好み,1742年にはいわゆるフランクリン・ストーブ(前開き式鉄製ストーブ)を発明し,長年の電気についての研究ののち,52年には凧(たこ)を使って稲妻と電気との同一性を実験したことは有名であるが,その前年には電気の性質についての論文をものにしていた。…

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