The Founding Fathers Podcast

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Beginning Life as a Printer

07.01.2010 - By Play

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Benjamin Franklin was not only one of the Founding Fathers of the United

States. He was a leading writer, publisher, inventor, diplomat,

scientist, and philosopher. He is well-known for his experiments with

electricity and lightning, and for publishing "Poor Richard's Almanac"

and the Pennsylvania

Gazette. He served as Postmaster General under the Continental

Congress, and later became a prominent abolitionist. He is credited with

inventing the lightning rod, the Franklin Stove, and bifocals.

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