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How did Benjamin Franklin change the world?how would the world be different without his discovery?
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Ben Franklin was an extremely interesting person. He was a statesman, inventor, printer, postmaster general, scientist, and patriot. There is no doubt that the world would be a different place...
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Here's only 2 points from his remarkable life: Franklin is the reason we describe both static and current electricity as "positive" or "negative." His observation that lightning appears to be...
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Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and a contributor to its content, he edited Thomas Jefferson's first draft, invented the concept of the library. ...
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Going back to your original question about the world being different without his discovery, I'm assuming you are talking about lightening being electricity. Although Franklin was a great mind,...
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Absolutely! Benjamin Franklin influenced many areas of American life, not to mention his influences in England and France during his lifetime as ambassador and academic. His experiements...
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Benjamin Franklin, the elder statesman of the Constitutional Convention, was key in obtaining an alliance with the French during the Revolutionary War. Now besides making it possible for the...
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