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Benjamin Franklin the Inventor Ben Franklin was an amazing inventor. He has made many things that are still around today but not used as much as people used to use them.Some things that he has made are bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove, the lightning rod, the glass harmonica, the hospital I could go on forever. Ben Franklin was great he has helped us get through lots of times such as with hospital where would we be if he didn't invent that? I am only going to talk about three of those things bifocal glasses, the lightning rod, and the swim fins these three things have made an interest on me and I would like to share them with you.

As you might know Ben did not have the best ey sight. he had two pairs of glasses. one pair was for seeing things far away and the other pair were for reading.The bifocal glasses are prescribed to people that suffer presbyopia which is what Ben Franklin had. Franklin cut his spectacles and put one spectacle on top for seeing objects far away and the other on the bottom for reading so he wouldn't have to keep switching them out.

Next I will be talking about the lightning rod. Franklin did not, of course, invent electricity, but he discovered lots of things about. It was thought that electricity consisted of a "common element" which he named electric. " Further ' electricity was, "fluid" like a liquid. It passed from body to next and so on. However it was never destroyed. Franklin's work became the basis for the single fluid theory. When something is being charged like a battery in a car, electricity flows from a positive body, that with an excess charge, to a negative charge, that with a negative charge.

Now I will be talking about the swim fins. Benjamin Franklin was an avid swimmer from a very young age. Throughout his life he consistently promoted his healthful benefits by swimming a lot. At the young age of 11 he invented a pair of swim fins. Not like the swim fins we have now that we put on our feet. He made swim fins that go on your hands. The swimming fins that he made would let him do better strokes in the water.

Ben Franklin was a very smart man and maybe an even better inventor. He has helped us learn things and give us inspiration to make new things. I Think no I know that he an amazing person maybe one of the best but his inventions are just amazing .Take the Hospital how people has Benjamin Franklin saved by making the hospital? I f Ben never made the hospital think about who would have made or if no one made it at all.

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Louis Joliet was born September 21,1645 in Quebec City, Canada. In 1673 Louis set off to find a all water route northwest to get to China. Marquette and Joliet paddled along the shores of Lake Michigan. Soon they reached the Mississippi River. When they saw that the river flowed north to south, they knew they had not found a northwest passage. They were the first Europeans to explore where the city of Chicago would be built many years later. One awards Joliet got was that he was granted land of the south of Quebec.He worked as Canadian explorer. Louis discovered the upper Mississippi River with Father Jaques Marquette. Joliet and Marquette expedition traveled down the Mississippi 435 miles of the Gulf of Mexico. On May 17, 1673, Jolliet and Marquette departed from St. Igance Michigan with two canoes and five other voyagers of French-Indian ancestry (today's Metis). The group followed Lake Michigan to the end of Green Bay. They then paddled upstream (but southward) on the Fox River to the site now known as Portage, Wisconsin. There, they carried their canoes and gear a distance of slightly less than two miles through marsh and oak forest to the Wisconsin River. Europeans eventually built a trading post at that shortest convenient portage between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins. On June 17, the canoeists ventured onto the Mississippi River near present-day Prairie du Chien.They turned back north at the mouth of the Arkansas River.The purpose of there journey was to find an northwest passage to China. In Joliet's later years Joliet wed Claire-Françoise Bissot and became more actively involved in Quebec's church and community life.He returned to fur trading in 1676, setting upon a business in the northern region of the St. Lawrence and also working.as a merchant in the Michigan Archipelago. He took on another exploratory mission in 1679, at the behest of the French colonists, to survay English and Native American trading relations in the Hudson Bay area. Tward the end of the 17th century, Joliet was internationally known for his expaditions, from which official regional maps were created. Sadley in the year of 1700 Joliet died.