“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”- Benjamin Franklin. Without Benjamin Franklin’s advanced thinking life wouldn 't be as easy as it is today. A great portion of inventions would not exist without him, such as, the Lightning Rod, Bifocals, and different types of stoves. We might not even be a country without Ben. Benjamins intellect and love for his country still lives on to this day, and will continue to live on for centuries.
Franklin 's education was very little and ended when he was just 10 years old so he could work full-time at his father 's soap and candle shop (Biography.com). However he still taught himself to become skilled reader in writer as he
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At the age of 42 Benjamin 's interest in electricity ignited. He left his own printing business to focus more on scientific experiments. He handed the business over to a partner, not giving up on it entirely. Day after day Ben studied lightning and how that could go hand to hand with electricity. He put all his research into “Experiments and Observations on Electricity” published in 1752, one of the ways he prove that lightning is electricity (Biography.com). Another way he proved it was in 1752 he conducted the famous key and kite experiment to prove that lightning was electricity. He eventually invented the lightning rod which attracted lightning which made lightning hit that rod instead of a nearby house, also providing electricity.
Franklin also invented lots of other random things that we still use today and are very popular. For example, he crafted his own flippers. Ben was a self-taught swimmer and performed long distance swims on the Thomas River, later in 1968 he was inducted into a honorary member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame (Biography.com). Along with that Benjamin also came up with a new “scheme” for the alphabet. He wanted to eliminate certain letters such as C, J, Q,W, X and Y, as redundant, however that did not work out
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Since Benjamin Franklin was such a strong patriot when he found out his son was a loyalist it drew a father-son feud between them. As it states in the article “My Son, My Enemy”( Skemp) Benjamin said “Nothing has ever hurt me so much..as to find myself deserted in my old age by my only son.” Franklin cut of all ties with his son, William, because of Ben’s love for the colonies. A biography by written about Benjamin by Biogrpahy.com stated that in 1776 when the New Jersey militia took the title of Royal Governor from William and imprisoned him, Benjamin chose not to interject and free his son but instead let his son get imprisoned. When Benjamin died April 17 of 1790 he left basically nothing for his son in his will (Skemp). He gave most of his estate to his daughter Sarah and close to nothing to William, whose choice to be a Loyalist still upset Benjamin
During the war, however, William Franklin remained loyal to the crown, as his father taught him to be. The rift between the two became so large that “Benjamin Franklin's son William, who was a loyalist, spied on his own father and reported the elder Franklin's activities to the British authorities. ”(Spies). Benjamin Franklin felt betrayed by his son’s actions and for not following the same Patriotic path as him. Consequently, “[i]n June, 1789, less than one year before his death, an aging Benjamin Franklin made an addition to his will, effectively disinheriting his only living son.
At a young age, Franklin was a determined. He would become his brother’s apprentice in his printing press company. This would inspire him to establish his own printing press which would be well known throughout all the colonies. He was then given the rank of postmaster, which made him the head of all the post offices in the colonies. He was very interested in pursuing science and enjoyed inventing; this curiosity of science would lead him to be the first to discover electricity.
For example, he invented bifocals, the lightning rod, the Franklin Stove, swim fins, and a lot of other things. Since Benjamin was always trying his best to achieve “moral perfection” and make the world a better place, at the age of 20, he created a list of thirteen virtues
Benjamin Franklin was an important figure in the history of the United States and
Apart from his tremendous writing skills, Franklin was also known for being an inventor and a scientist. He started to explore the many aspects of electricity in 1746 and was the first one to name the electrical charges as “positive” and “negative”; moreover, he created the lighting rod, which was a crucial invention
Benjamin’s tough times as a kid, his publishings, and how he helped draft the Declaration of Independence Even though James teased and constantly hit Ben, Ben learned a lot about newspaper publishing and gained a similar brand of politics under the printer’s
Benjamin Franklin is known to be an “Archetypal American,” because of his beliefs on religion, self-improvement, hard work, and determination; but also his somewhat prideful spirit. Much of modern America is quite similar to Franklin in his actions throughout his lifetime. In his early years, Franklin’s father, Josiah, had a set plan for what he was supposed to do with his life, as a minister. Soon into his education, he found an interest in reading and writing, so he began pursuing a career in printing.
Benjamin Franklin was a scientist, politician, and he invents a bunch of cool things. Benjamin Franklin did not attend school until the age of ten. It took his father two years to pay for his son’s education. Franklin’s family household was large and he is the youngest out of his seventeen siblings. Benjamin Franklin grew up with an unfortunate lifestyle; in the fall of 1723, he went travelled to Philadelphia the city of Pennsylvania with a lack of budget and without support from anyone not even his close family.
Introduction 1 Benjamin Franklin was always loved to read and write and it led him to his amazing accomplishments. 2 Some of his accomplishments he had were in all subjects that are in schools today. 3 His accomplishments consisted of the first battery, the bifocal glasses, and he made the Odometer.
Ben wrote a book about his experiments on electricity, that became extremely popular and even formed the basis of modern day electricity theory (Compton’s, p. 382). Not only did Franklin leave a great legacy as a scientist, but he also changed the course of American
He taught himself how to play the guitar, violin, and harp. When Benjamin saw the need for something he created It, being a inventor, impact on education and being a great scientist.
Born in 1706 as the eighth of 17 children to a Massachusetts soap and candlestick maker, the chances Benjamin Franklin would go on to become a gentleman, scholar, scientist, statesman, musician, author, publisher and all-around general genius were astronomically low, yet he did just that. Franklin wrote in the Age of Enlightenment, an intellectual revolution in the 18th century. The ideals of the enlightenment are still thought of today, as they are a part of the United States’ Declaration of Independence and Constitution. When one remembers Benjamin Franklin very few people are aware of the fact that he worked as a printer until the age of 42. As a printer he had access to substantial amounts of literature.
As a result, Benjamin Franklin is a wise man, in order to create trusts from the members of the congress, he utilizes his ethos by accepting his fallibilities and willing to do good for the constitution to be
The importance of Ben Franklin has been told all throughout history, along with the famous $100 bill with his face on it. Drafting the Declaration of Independence, foudning universities and libraries, the post office, shaping policies in the U.S., publishing newspapers, making advances in science, and letting us use bifocals and using lighting for electricity. Even if this man never finished school, he did much reading and experiments that help us out today. The reason why I chose to write about Benjamin Franklin was because he was a very important Founding Father and it’s important for people to learn all about
At the start of the 18th century, the beginning of the Enlightenment was upon America. There were many factors and people who help play a part in the Enlightenment or, in other words, the Age of Reason, some of the people that assisted the enlightenment was Thomas Jefferson, John Locke, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adam. Each of the philosophers demonstrates the fundamental idea of the Enlightenment like liberalism, rationalism, conservatism, toleration and scientific progress. Even though each person played an important part, the most influences person that was involved was Benjamin Franklin. Throughout Benjamin Franklin`s life, he demonstrates through his action and writing that he was the epitome of the Enlightenment by showing that he was