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Benjamin franklin was born on January 17, 1706 and was destined for inventing. His thoughts were never idled when it came to inventing new ideas. When he would invent those new ideas, he had to clear his mind of all of the tough moments in life and come up with an idea that would lead him to make a new invention. When he had invented something new, he would be very satisfied most of the time. He especially with his glass armonica which is an instrument made with glass and wood that has been invented before his but he just made his own version of it. Three of his main inventions were bifocals, the lightning rod, and the Franklin stove.

He invented bifocals which are glasses with two halves the upper half for seeing long distances and the bottom for reading. Many people were interested in this new invention. It was a very big help too people with near-sighted vision who wore glasses that that couldn’t help them see as well as these bifocals could. Some people have made different versions of bifocals. Some people still use bifocals to this day. He invented the lightning rod after he figured out that lightning was electricity. With the lightning rod, he discovered more about electricity. Like how it was attracted to metal, and how that electricity would strike the rod and flow down into the ground through the metal rod. Eventually electricity was used in homes for cooking and light bulbs instead of torches or gas lamps. Some people especially liked it for its size and shape because of the way it just fit anywhere.

The Franklin stove which is a fireplace lined with metal that usually stood in the center of a living room or den. Many people said that it was too big and it overheated because it was iron. But Benjamin franklin loved it. He thought that it was nice because when the fire heated up the iron, the radiation coming off of it was calming. But in the end he convinced people that it is amazing in the winter. He also did some cool experiments. His most famous experiment was when he tied a metal house key to the string of a kite and flew it in a thunderstorm to prove that lightning was electricity because the lightning being attracted to metal would strike the key and prove that lightning was electricity.

When the lightning struck the metal key, he touched it and there was a spark of electricity that could have killed him if it was any stronger. Most importantly, he lived to tell the story and continue on his thinking and discovering. As he moved on in life, his thoughts and inventions got more and more delayed as he got older, and people did not rely on his smaller inventions as much as they did before because more inventors made better things than his own by building off of his old ones and adding more ideas to those inventions but also inventing new things. Sadly he died of a lung disease called Pleurisy which is swelling of the lungs outer layer to the point where he suffocated. His soul may have gone to heaven, but his ideas and inventions did not go with it. Not only the fact that he was one of the best inventors out there tells you that he was very important, but he is also on the front of the American one hundred dollar bill.

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encyclopedia source: [|__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin__]

book sources: Benjamin Franklin By T.M. Usel