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-6th President of       Pennsylvania
- Born: January 17, 1706
Boston, Massachusetts  Bay
-Died: April 17, 1790 (aged 84)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
-Nationality: American
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5 Amazing Inventions by Benjamin Franklin

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In 1742, Franklin—perhaps fed up with the cold Pennsylvania winters—invented a better way to heat rooms. The Franklin stove, as it came to be called, was a metal-lined fireplace designed to stand a few inches away from the chimney. A hollow baffle at the rear let heat from the fire mix with the air more quickly, and an inverted siphon helped to extract more heat. His invention also produced less smoke than a traditional fireplace, making it that much more desirable.

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An avid swimmer, Franklin was just 11 years old when he invented swimming fins—two oval pieces of wood that, when grasped in the hands, provided extra thrust through the water. (He also tried out fins for his feet, but they weren’t as effective.)

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Like most of us, Franklin found that his eyesight was getting worse as he got older, and he grew both near-sighted and far-sighted. Tired of switching between two pairs of eyeglasses, he invented “double spectacles,” or what we now call bifocals. He had the lenses from his two pairs of glasses (one for reading and one for distance) sliced in half horizontally and then remade into a single pair—with the lens for distance at the top and the one for reading at the bottom.

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Franklin is known for his experiments with electricity, a fascination that began in earnest after he accidentally shocked himself in 1746. By 1749, he had turned his attention to the possibility of protecting buildings—and the people inside—from lightning strikes. Having noticed that a sharp iron needle conducted electricity away from a charged metal sphere, he theorized that such a design could be useful.

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Lightning Rod

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Joseph-Siffred Duplessis Oil painting of Benjamin Franklin

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Joseph-Siffred Duplessis Oil painting of Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin was many things in his lifetime: a printer, a postmaster, an ambassador, an author, a scientist, a Founding Father. Above all, he was an inventor, creating solutions to common problems, innovating new technology, and even making life a little more musical.