Junto

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Junto

social improvement organization

Also known as: Leather Apron Club

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Benjamin Franklin
Achievements and inventions of Benjamin Franklin
In 1727 he organized the Junto, or Leather Apron Club, to debate questions of morals, politics, and natural philosophy and to exchange knowledge of business affairs. The need of Junto members for easier access to books led in 1731 to the organization of the Library Company of Philadelphia. Through the…
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In 1727 he organized the Junto, or Leather Apron Club, to debate questions of morals, politics, and natural philosophy and to exchange knowledge of business affairs. The need of Junto members for easier access to books led in 1731 to the organization of the Library Company of Philadelphia. Through the…
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American Philosophical Society
…of young men called the Junto—formed in Philadelphia by Franklin in 1727, when he was only 21—there grew an interest in experiment and inquiry that resulted in his publication in 1743 of A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge Among the British Plantations in America. This proposal was so favourably received…
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…of young men called the Junto—formed in Philadelphia by Franklin in 1727, when he was only 21—there grew an interest in experiment and inquiry that resulted in his publication in 1743 of A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge Among the British Plantations in America. This proposal was so favourably received…
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