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he read and wrote every day
1727
Ben Franklin would be doing ........................................................ work.
Benjamin Franklin was brave enough to put a magnetic key on a kite to test the electric shocks on a stormy day.
Benjamin Franklin did not invent the lightning bulb? He did however discover electricity May 10th 1752. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1879.
The Franklin stove of yesteryear works just like a wood stove of today. It is basically a fire place with a metal insert. The amount of wood needed and smoke created was reduced with this invention.
Benjamin Franklin (1706- 1790 ) made discoveries relating to the theory of electricity and made practical inventions that illustrated scientific principles. His famous and very dangerous experiment of flying a kite in a thunder storm showed that lightning was a form of electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'harmonica'. He was active in supporting the scientific community of his day .
Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1918 in Boston, Massachusetts. He died on April 17, 2001 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Benjamin Franklin suggested the concept of daylight savings time to citizens of Paris to conserve candles by rising earlier to use natural morning sunlight. However daylight savings time as we know it was brought forth by William Willett, who spent much of his life unsuccessfully lobbying for it in London.
He Spent a day on each virtue-NovaNet
On a June day in 1752.
Daylight saving time was first suggested by Benjamin Franklin in 1784 in a humorous essay where he proposed that people could save on candle usage by starting their days earlier to make use of natural light.