Lunar Society Birmingham_A Heritage Success Model For Innovation and Prosperity USA

Founding Father Ben Franklin, a corresponding member later, actually used this Lunar Circle "success model" likely, to create the Junto Club (known also as the "Leather Apron Club" at the age of 21, a club for self-improvement, mutual help, and articians like himself in Philadelphia. This was done after his return home from his first trip to London to buy equipment for a print shop at home.

One key achivements of the Junto was the establishment of the first public library ( books were far more expensive then. So, a 'Subscription Library" open to all in town was created) .

The Junto members have left a legacy of innovation that is still with us today. Also, William Small, the physcian and science teacher who inspired young Thomas Jefferson at College of Willam & Mary in Virgina, returned to England before the American Revolution started and joined the Lunar Circle.

Perhaps more than anyone else, the Scottish inventor, James Watts had an impact on America with his "Steam Engine" invention, than anyone else. In the next century, Railroads came to America from that early beginning and expanded westward from east to west in a rapid pace that helped catalyze expansion, innovation and prosperity in America as rapidly as nothing else in prior centuries.

Does this heritage "success model" of "Lunar Society" have vintage wisdom for us here in America in search of innovation & prosperity today and tomorrow ?

Answer: Yes, yes ! .