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"Do not squander time - for that is the stuff life is made of." -Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin FRANKLIN
In addition to being a printer, publisher, and statesman, Benjamin Franklin was a brilliant scientific investigator, known in his day as "the wizard of electricity." His famous kite experiment proved that lightning is a form of electricity.

1706 Benjamin Franklin is born on January 17, in Boston, Massachusetts.
1728-1729 - Opens a print shop in Philadelphia and becomes publisher of the Pennsylvania Gazette.
1731 - Franklin sets up America's first lending library.
1732-1758 - Publishes annually his best-selling Poor Richard's Almanack.
1743 - Founds the American Philosophical Society, an organization for the promotion of science. Makes significant discoveries and predictions about the movement of storms.
1744 - Invents a more efficient wood stove, the Franklin Fireplace.
1750 - Invents the lightning rod.
1751 - Franklin's book Experiments and Observations on Electricity is published.
1752 - Franklin performs his famous kite experiment, proving that lightning is a stream of electrified air.
1753 - Receives Britain's Copley Medal, the equivalent of today's Nobel Prize, for his work with electricity.
1764-1765 - Represents the colonies in England. While crossing the Atlantic, Franklin charts the Gulf Stream.
1776 - Franklin helps write and signs the Declaration of Independence.
1784 - Invents bifocal glasses.
1787 - Franklin writes an anti-slavery treatise and becomes president of the Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.
1790 Benjamin Franklin dies on April 17 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.