BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

CONTRIBUTION TO SCIENCE

• Electricity
• Bifocals
• Franklin stove
• Meteorological inventions

FACTS

• Born on January 17,1706
• He taught himself how to read French, Spanish,Latin, and Italian
• When he was 15 he became an apprentice printer
• Married to Deborah Read Rogers in 1730

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• At the age of 22 he became the owner of the Pennsylvania Gazette newspaper
• He established the colonies' first circulatory library for citizens
• Also organized the first insurance company in the colonies
• He drew the join, or die political cartoon

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• He was over the age of 45 when he started his electricity experiments
• He was almost killed during his experiments
• His early experiments were done by hand, or trial and error
• He sold his printing business to concentrate on his experiments

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• In 1751 he helped found the first hospital in America
• He invented the first original musical instrument in America

OTHER INVENTIONS

• Library stepstool
• Mechanical arm for reaching books on high shelves
• Rocking chair
• The "writing chair"
• Odometer

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DIED ON APRIL 17, 1790

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• www.franklinbusybody.com/facts.asp
• www.ushistory.org/FRANKLIN/info/
• www.ushistory.org/franklin/info/timeline.htm

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