Benjamin Franklin was an American statesman, author, printer, scientist, inventor, and diplomat. He was born in 1706 and died in 1790. Franklin made important scientific contributions to the understanding of electricity and invented numerous appliances, including the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove. In his later years, he played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and advocate for the abolition of slavery.

1. January 17, 1706 April 17, 1790

2. AUTHOR
SATIRIST
PRINTER
POLITICAL THEORIST
POLITICAN
SCIENTIST
INVENTOR CIVIC ACTIVIST
STATESMAN
DIPLOMAT

3. HE WAS AN IMPORTANT SCIENTIST IN THE
ENLIGHTENMENT
ELECTRICITY
Lighting rod
Bifocals
The Franklin stove
A carriage odometer
The glass ”armonica”
STARTED WITH A LIGHTENING STRIKING THRU HIS
KAIT TO A METAL KEY. HE BASICALLY DISCOVERED
ELECRICITY.

4. “In the last decade of his life, Benjamin
Franklin served as a member of the
Constitutional Convention and was elected
president of the Pennsylvania Society for
Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.
Historians have called him the
quintessential American because of his
creative pragmatism, scientific innovation,
and democratic spirit”