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Ben Franklin is one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He is also a renowned writer, printer, politician, inventor, and scientist.
Franklin is credited to being one of the first American Physicists, who changed the way electricity was perceived in the world.

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Ben was born January 17, 1706 in Boston. He was the youngest of Josiah Franklin's 15 children, who was a soap maker from England.

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Despite his success at Boston Latin School, he quit his formal schooling when he was 10 to work at his father's soap and candle shop. Still, he was completely infatuated with reading and learning in any capacity that he could.
When he turned 12, Ben worked as a printer for his older brother James, who totally mistreated him and was a royal jerk.

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When Franklin was 17, he fled from his home to escape his brother (he never returned home).
Ben hopped around for a while, living in New York, Philadelphia, and London, before settling back in Philly. He picked up various jobs along the years, but settled back into the printing industry when he settled.

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Benny did a whole bunch of random things. These include

Establishing the first lending library.

Owning a bunch of newspapers.

Being the Grand Master of the Free Masons

Writing a book about meteorology called "Poor Richard's Almanac".

Mapping out the first chart of the Gulf Stream.

fighting in wars.

A whole bunch of politics (which included being commissioner to Canada, and drafting the declaration of Independence in 1776).

Inventing things like bifocals, flexible catheters (for his brother John who has kidney stones), an instrument called the armonica, the odometermore efficient stoves, and refrigerators.

He even spent 9 years in Paris, as an ambassador, just dating women and being adored by French people.

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Benjamin's most famous scientific study and experiments involved electricity.

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His contributions to physics influenced and created foundation to Nikola Tesla's and Thomas Edison's works.

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the armonica (Mozart and Beethoven wrote a bunch of music with this thing)

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One of his biggest discoveries was that the generation of a positive charge is accompanied by the generation of an equal negative charge. He found that electricity cannot be created or removed, only stored.

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He disproved the standing theory that electricity involved two different "fluids", and was comprised only of one. To explain his theory, he establishedthe idea of 'positive' and 'negative' electrical charges.

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he invented the first battery, which was made by grouping a bunch of leyden jars together

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He invented the Lightning Rod.
He proposed that lightning was a form of electricity, so he conducted an experiment. Using a silk kite with a sharp wire attached to the top and a metal key suspended near the end of the string, he was able to draw off sparks from a passing storm cloud. Remarkably, he didn't die.

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Though there is no specific record, popular scientific influences at the time included Voltaire, Cotton Mather, David Hume, and Emer de Vattel.

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It's unclear of Benny's connection to most of these fellow scientists, but here's who was doing science (mostly physics) at the same time:

Sir Isaac Newton

Ewald Jürgen Georg von Kleist (leyden jar)

Henry Cavendish (English physicist and chemist; discovered hydrogen and nitric acid)

Charles Augustin de Coulomb (French physicist who discovered the law of force between two charged bodies, and also Coulomb's law)

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APS Physics. (n.d). Benjamin Franklin. Retrieved from https://www.aps.org/programs/outreach/history/historicsites/franklin.cfm

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Fromm, James. R. (Feb 2004). Famous Scientists. Retrieved from http://www.3rd1000.com/history.htm

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Stories from American History. (June 7 2014). Benjamin Franklin and Electricity. Retrieved from https://studiesinamericanhistory.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/benjamin-franklin-and-electricity/