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Franklin, Benjamin
- A patriot, diplomat, author, printer, scientist, and inventor in the eighteenth century; one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was an important early researcher in electricity and proposed the modern model of electrical current (see also current ). He also demonstrated that lightning was electricity by flying a kite in a thunderstorm and allowing it to be struck by lightning. Franklin used this discovery to invent the lightning rod. He produced other inventions as well, such as bifocal eyeglasses and the efficient Franklin stove. Particularly notable among his writings are The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinand Poor Richard's Almanack. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and negotiated with France and Britain on behalf of the newly formed government of the United States. Toward the end of his life, he took part in the Constitutional Convention .
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Benjamin Franklin warned against making any hasty conclusions on such “a point of great importance.”
Americans starting with Benjamin Franklin have been suspicious of liberal arts higher education.
Benjamin Franklin believed in prayer but stressed the importance of ecumenical “public religion.”
What would Benjamin Franklin say about the NSA spying on innocent Americans?
Long before the modern sex columnist, there was Benjamin Franklin.
Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man, because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle.
To have beaten Benjamin Franklin with a stick, when he was seventeen years old, seems an absurd anti-climax in American history.
The interest in this class of instruments arises from the fact that it was invented by Benjamin Franklin.
Benjamin Franklin went there, one of a government commission sent to investigate the miracles.
In a sense the greatest of all these, and in the same sense, the greatest American, was Benjamin Franklin.
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