Stop all the clocks...
Sep 30, 2020
2 minutes
IN 1784, 78-year-old Benjamin Franklin, then in Paris, made an astonishing discovery. Used to waking at noon (so he wrote to a French magazine), he found—due to the carelessness of an attendant who had forgotten to close the bedroom shutters—that sunlight streamed through his window
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