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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was one of many founding fathers that impacted the U.S with his great mind. He was born on Born on January 17, 1706 he’s from Boston Massachusetts and died in 1790 on April 17 in Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin help shape the world by a lot and most of the important political social, and intellectual deployments in the eighteen century of America he became a very veritable person around that time of the United States by the end of his life and also till this day he’s still remarkable hero. His early life was very significant thing to start his life he had ancestors that own a bit of land only twelves miles from England seat of the Washington’s . Franklin had a father and he was a great father to his son …show more content…

He had great people that called him many things say like George Washington he called him "that great philosopher. Thomas Jefferson also called him "the greatest man of the age and country in which he lived." John Adams said onto franklin that "Franklin was a genius man , a original, sagacious, and inventive, he had discoveries in science nothing less of improvements in the fine arts and the mechanical art His reputation was more universal than Frederick or Voltaire. Franklin was a well known for his accomplishment and the one he was most know for is the electricity invention Franklin was known for that invention it was the kite experiment it was fascinating because he shock himself in 1746 . franklin started getting lighting from the sky and he tried bringing it to the ground with out harming anything or anyone they say back in that time when thunder was coming people would hide under their beds because they was scared. By 1749 he began to come up with the and so with franklins demonstration the world started to look upon the natural phenomena in a different and the world started to understand the way and control it through science and inventions. The ideas of protecting people in building from lighting strikes after he noticed that a needle iron can conduct electricity and he theorized that it can be use for the world. Also, he created eyeglasses because he was getting older and he was getting far side and near sided so he was getting tired of the switching between to pairs of eyeglasses, so he invented the “Double Spectacles” and as of this day we call them bifocals. he invented a lot of great things to help us with our problems like swimming he Franklin was a kid when he invented swimming fins and it was great because he provided extra thrust threw water when swimming. He had million-dollar invention and he notice that it

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