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| Benjamin Franklin |
| (1/17/1706 - 4/17/1790) |
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| Printer, newspaper publisher, economist, diplomat, statesman, musician, philosopher, scientist and inventor |
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Benjamin Franklin’s ideas- including many from the fields of science and research – live on to this very day. These include the bifocal eyeglasses which he invented, making distance and close-up vision possible without having to switch between two pairs of glasses.
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| Portrait: Benjamin Franklin | American stamp of Benjamin Franklin |
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The “Papers of Benjamin Franklin", his philosophical and scientific writings, show just how incredibly creative the genius Franklin really was. He started his career as an apprentice printer and ended it as a statesman. Indeed, he is now ranked as one of the greatest statesmen ever to have lived in the USA. He deliberately did not apply for patents for his inventions, hence making them accessible to everyone.
| We would like to thank the Franklin Institute Science Museum for providing us with photographs. We have based this text on J. A. Leo Lemay' s "Benjamin Franklin" and information obtained from the Franklin Institute. |
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