"Man [is a] tool-making animal."
— Benjamin Franklin

January 1, 1970

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AphoristsEngineers from the United StatesFounding Fathers of the United States of AmericaElectrical engineersGovernors of Pennsylvania
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Quoted by James Boswell in The Life of Samuel Johnson, April 7, 1778 (1791)