Benjamin Franklin

first of all, electricity was not INVENTED! It was discovered by Benjamin Franklin! Next, How it got discovered was that he used kite in the lightning...and lightning went throught then string and straight to a box! he put that box on purpose to capture the lightning!! for more information, type' how was lightning discovered" on Google!

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Mid-eighteenth century scientists and inventors considered electricity to be Franklin's most remarkable area of investigation and discovery. In his famous experiment using a key and a kite during a thunderstorm, Franklin (working with his son) tested his hypothesis that lightning bolts are actually powerful electrical currents. This work led to the invention of the lightning rod which had the dramatic effect of preventing structures from igniting and burning as the result of being struck by lightning.

Electrical currents have been observed before Benjamin Franklin did his somewhat dangerous kite experiment but it was Benjamin that connected the thunderstorms with lightning actually being powerfull electricity.

The first suspected human application of electricity is the ancient Egyptian Dendera Light, dating to about 300 BC. The Baghdad Battery, dating between 250 BC and 640 AD, may be another ancient electrical device. The ancient Greeks were the first to record knowledge of electrical phenomenon in their writings. They observed both lightning and static electricity, however they did not make any logical connections between the two. Chinese scientists wrote about the use of magnetite as an alternative to celestial navigation. However, it was not until the 17th century that scientists began actively investigating electricity. Otto von Guericke developed the first electrostatic generator in 1660, and Pieter van Musschenbroek invented the electrical capacitor in 1745. These two inventions provided scientists with on-demand electrical current, thus facilitating controlled experimentation. The work of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison brought electrical devices to everyday use.

Benjamin Franklin was not the one to "discover" electricity but he is often given credit for this. He is however the first to make the connection to a lightning and document it by writing down results. Him making this connection lead to his invention of the Lightning rod. An invention that has not changed much even until present day.

These days we even have methods of forcing discharge of the clouds using lazers in combination with lightning rods.

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Help persuade the french to team up with the Americans during the revolutionary war

He is considered a "hero" because he was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. He secured the French alliance that helped make the independence of the United States possible. He was an author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor and diplomat. He was born on January 17, 1706 and died on April 17, 1790. For more information, please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

Benjamin Franklin did not invent the light bulb (the incandescent light). It was invented by Thomas Alva Edison over 150 years later. Franklin did do early experimentation with electricity however.

The Benjamin model 312 was part of the 310 series of rifles that included 310, 312, and 317. They came in .177 and .22 caliber. Production started with the model 310 in 1940 and ended with the model 317 in 1969, the 312 fell somewhere in the middle of that time period

This pistol was made between 1952-56. Unfortunately I need a little more information about the pistol to give an estimate of value. Is it still working? what shape is it in? Poor, fair, good ,very good or excellent. Is the bluing gone? it is scratched. All of these things determine the value.

Benjamin Zephaniah was born on April 15, 1958.

Ben Franklin had 16 total siblings. He was the youngest son of the seventeen and had 2 younger sisters. His Father came to America with a wife and 3 children, had 4 more with his first wife and 10 more with the second wife.

Yes, he did

armonica, franklin stove, lightning rod, bifocals, and daylight savings time. also i believe he had something to do with the farmers almanac.

The biggest single impact that Franklin had on science was the assignment of the direction of electrical current. He determined that current was the flow of positively charged particles. This happens to be wrong but we still follow the convention even today.

According to the National Constitution Center, www.constitutioncenter.org,

There is a story, often told, that upon exiting the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of citizens asking what sort of government the delegates had created. His answer was: "A republic, if you can keep it."

The 137 is part of the 130 series of pistols made between 1946 to 1985. The 130 was a BB gun, the 132 was a .22 caliber and 137 was a .177 caliber pellet pistol.

See the link below for the owners manual

"Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the states present the seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth."

September 17, 1787

he went to the local grammar school and only stayed there for two years because his parents couldn't afford it but when he was 10 years old he started working for his father and when he was 15 years of age he worked for his half- brother for the NEW ENGLAND COURANT.

http://wiki.answers.com/Why_didn't_Ben_Franklin_become_presidentHe was too old and not in good health by the time the US was formed.

meaning if someone just hopes for something he will never get it. like when people say when i win the lottery i will do x.

why not work hard and make that a goal to begin with?

he invented things like the Franklin stove, the glass armonica, bifocals, swimming fins, and maybe other things i cannot remember. he aslo discovered that lightning is electricity

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Yes he attended the Boston Latin School until his father pulled him out at 7-8 years old and apprenticed him to a candlemaker. He eventually will become an apprentice to his brother a printer.

No. The first railroad was built in England.

Benjamin was a sickly boy during his childhood and teen times;age one-amakettis age three-tuberculosis age four-golda,s disease age six-dysentery age seven-cancer age nine-pneumonia age eleven-asthma age twelve-jauntice age fourteen-

heart disease age seventeen-liver damage age nineteen-kinderhook age twenty leukmenia age twenty two-polio but when he died at age 84,he died of lheart failure,whooping cough,bright,s disease and Vietnam,s illness

Franklin both owned and sold slaves, a fact that is hardly touched on in most biographies. David Waldstreicher, in his recent book Runaway America, writes: [Franklin] profited from the domestic and international slave trade, complained about the ease with which slaves and servants ran off to the British army during the colonial wars of the 1740

In the 1700's the word "virtue " meant honesty and truth. He listed them from the most important to the least. To be a virtuous person was a complement that was considered to be the best thing a person could be called. To conduct business in the 1700's the word of a person was considered to be binding and their virtue was counted on as something that was regarded as part of their reputation. We have lost this idea of virtue and that is sad.