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  • Invented the Franklin stove.
  • Framed Roger Rabbit
  • electricity...
  • invented bifocal glasses
  • ... flew a kite ...
  • He proposed Daylight Saving Time and convinced Congress to make it into law. If I had a time machine, I'd go back in time and kill him...
  • Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He is one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence to break the 13 colonies from Great Britain, and was sent by Congress to France to persuade the King of France to send Troops and money to help us break free. He was a printer and printed a booklet called "Poor Richard's Almanack" that made him rich. He founded the first Fire Company in Philadelphia, the first public Hospital, the first City Zoo. The list of who and what his man did as a person and for this country is amazing. One of his few mistakes was, he wanted the Turkey to be our national bird!
  • Said something on the order of "Make love with older women. They are so grateful!"
  • Professionally/for a living, throuhgout most of his professional life, he was first a printer and then branched into newspaper publishing and editting (the Pennsylvania Gazette), also writing much of his own published items, most notably Poor Richard's Almanack. As his business prospered, he went in for public service and philanthropy: He helped launch projects to pave, clean and light Philadelphia's streets. He started agitating for environmental clean up. Among the chief accomplishments of Franklin in this era was helping to launch the Library Company in 1731, the nation's first subscription library. In 1743, he helped to launch the American Philosophical Society, the first learned society in America. Franklin also brought together a group who formed the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1751. The Library Company, Philosophical Society, and Pennsylvania Hospital are all in existence today. In 1736, he organized Philadelphia's Union Fire Company, the first in the city. His famous saying, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," was actually fire-fighting advice. In 1752, Franklin helped to found the "Philadelphia Contribution for Insurance Against Loss by Fire" - the nation's first fire insurance company. It too is still in business today. At the same time, he invented the Franklin stove (for home heating) and bifocals. His most famous achievements, however, were in areas where he merely dabbled, most of them while an old man (for the time) after he retired from publishing in 1749. (His research in electricity was conducted in his late 40s and 50s. He was 71 when he signed the Declaration, 83 at the Constitutional Convention, and in between was Ambassador to France, secured them as allies, and helped negotiate and signed the Treaty of Paris of 1783.) He also sired an unknown number of bastard children, including his namesake, but only one legitimate child, a daughter.
  • Franklin was a printer, businessman, scientist, author, diplomat and statesman. His most notable achievements were his writings, his inventions and his diplomatic efforts in France during the American Revolution. +5

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