In presenting Franklin's autobiography as an exemplary formal experiment in an era that its author once called the Age of Experiments, The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin veers from the familiar practices of traditional biographers, viewing history through the lens of the literary imagination rather than the other way around.
The nineteenth century was the great Age of Experiment in American agriculture.
However, he said, the decline of the biography also means the dawn of a new age of experiment.
"When she sent me her sketch breakdown of each of her seven ages, I was captivated, because it was an idea I immediately connected with intellectually... it was Anna's fantastically well-informed choice for the seven ages (originally Age of Experiment, Exploration, Opportunity, Inspiration, Laboratory, War and Now – I proposed Age of Ingenuity later) that I really warmed to".
We used mice at 10 to 14 weeks of age for experiments.
"We're entering a new age" of these experiments, says evolutionary ecologist Dolph Schluter of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, "and from them we'll gain a deeper understanding of evolutionary patterns".
By his own reckoning, Radcliffe wrote close to a hundred poems between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one, experimenting with a variexperimenting— heroic couplets, terza rima, and an obscure form called pantoum.
By 2000, we were well into the age of the "experimented with marijuana" dodge, with getting zonked spun as a science project.
In consequence the artist has become over-concerned with his material (hence an age of technical experiment), and, in isolation, has busied himself with the two principal themes of modernism, mystification and outrage.
A major milestone in the computer age was born out of experiments at the University of Pennsylvania, where the ENIAC computer was launched in 1945.
