What kind of work did Benjamin Franklin do?

Answer 1

Ben Franklin is the most known person as one of the Founding Fathers of the USA. He was a stateman and signed the Declaration of Independence. He was a publisher of Poor Richard's Almanackand invented many things like spectacles. He discovered that lightning was electricity by flying a kite in a storm wih a key. This act has been duplicated without much success. He was a postmaster for Philadelphia and founded the first fire insurance company. He also had a career as scientist, inventor, printer, philosopher, musician and economist.

Answer 2

As a living Benjamin Franklin did so much, it isn't even possible to start discribing him! He was a printer,writer,leader,inventor,scientist, oh i can go on forever! He did this he did that. he did something in every catagory! Mason, he even invented the thing on top of your house! He invented that post thing on the roof, yup he invented the lightning post! Allright i got to get more information, check out more questions, the answers are probably mine anyway!

Answer 3

Benjamin Franklin was a printer, writer, scientist, inventor, and the only one of the Founding Fathers who signed the Declaration of Independence, the treaty that ended America's war for independence and the Constitution.

Answer 4

he wuz a rapper and lived in new york with jay-z

Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, soldier, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica' (a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction). He formed both the first public lending library in America and the first fire department in Pennsylvania. He was an early proponent of colonial unity, and as a political writer and activist, he supported the idea of an American nation. As a diplomat during the American Revolution, he secured the French Alliance that helped to make independence for the United States possible.

Answer 5

Franklin was a swimming instructor, writer, publisher, printer, and statesman. His work with the French was key to their coming to the aid of the English colonists in America in their fight for independence against Britain.

Answer 6

Benjamin Franklin's jobs were scientist, inventor, candle maker, and printer.

Answer 7

he was an inventor & he also a signer of the decleration of independence