2-490-935 - Curt Teich Postcard Archives/Heritage Images

Benjamin Franklin's grave, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 1937. Vintage linen postcard showing Benjamin Franklin's grave in Christ Church Burial Ground at Fifth and Arch Streets. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Franklin (1706-1790) was a member of the committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia in 1776. Trained as a printer, first in his family's firm in Boston, and later in England, he became a notable publisher but is now better known as one of the founders of the science of electricity. Franklin became interested in the principles of electricity in 1747 and published Experiments and Observations on electricity in London in 1751. He was responsible for several inventions, including the lightning conductor and bifocal spectacles.