The vandalized cavalryman is valued at US$4.5 million, and is considered a "priceless part of China's cultural heritage". Law enforcement agents later recovered the stolen thumb. After his companions left, the partygoer broke off and stole a thumb from one of the warriors. On December 21, 2017, during a party hosted by the museum, a partygoer with his companions slipped into a closed-off exhibit of ten terracotta warriors on loan from China. Castellini was dismissed shortly thereafter. Confirmation can be obtained from Wagner Schlesinger, director of the Fels Planetarium of this city." This caused a panic in the city which only subsided when the Franklin Institute assured people it had made no such prediction. Scientists predict that the world will end at 3 p.m. The story was picked up by KYW, which reported, "Your worst fears that the world will end are confirmed by astronomers of Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. On March 31, 1940, press agent William Castellini issued a press release stating that the world would end the next day. Only two of the four wings envisioned by Windrim were built these face the Parkway and share design elements with other cultural and civic structures around Logan Circle.įDC for Franklin 1/2¢ stamp issued at the Franklin Institute on May 19, 1938 raised $5 million between December 1929 and June 1930. Despite the effects of the Great Depression, the Benjamin Franklin Memorial, Inc. Windrim's original design was a completely square building surrounding the Benjamin Franklin Statue, which had yet to be built. The new facility was intended from the start to educate visitors through hand-on interactions with exhibits: "Visitors to this museum would be encouraged to touch, handle, and operate the exhibits in order to learn how things work." Funds to build the new Institute and Franklin Memorial came from the Poor Richard Club, the City Board of Trust, the Benjamin Franklin Memorial, Inc., and the Franklin Institute. The Institute moved into its current home on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, near the intersection with 20th Street, in 1934. The Institute's original building at 15 South 7th Street, now the home of the Atwater Kent Museum, eventually proved too small for the Institute's research, educational programs, and library. The Franklin Institute was integrated in 1870, when Philadelphia teacher and activist Octavius Catto was admitted as a member. The first female member, Elizabeth Skinner, was elected to membership in 1833. The world's first public demonstration of an all-electronic television system was later given by Philo Taylor Farnsworth on August 25, 1934. From September 2 to October 11, 1884, it hosted the International Electrical Exhibition of 1884, the first great electrical exposition in the United States. Many scientists have demonstrated groundbreaking new technology at the Franklin Institute.
The Franklin Institute's original building is now the Philadelphia History Museum In addition to conducting scientific inquiry it fostered research and education by running schools, publishing the influential Journal of The Franklin Institute, sponsoring exhibitions, and recognizing scientific advancement and invention with medals and awards. 524)īegun in 1825, the Institute was an important force in the professionalization of American science and technology through the nineteenth century, beginning with early investigations into steam engines and water power. "With a view further to develop the resources of the union, increase the national independence, call forth the ingenuity and industry of the people, and thereby increase the comforts of the community at large." (Franklin Institute, opening day 1824, The Literary chronicle for the Year 1824, p. Keating founded the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts. On February 5, 1824, Samuel Vaughan Merrick and William H. Partnerships for Achieving Careers in Technology and Science.
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