Ben worked as an apprentice in his brother's shop. While Ben was working for his brother he wrote a book called, Do Good Papers, under a false name so his brother wouldn't know he wrote it. While working for James, Ben helped his brother create a paper called, The New England Courant. A few months later James was sent to jail for printing radical ideas. While James was gone Ben ran the shop and created a new paper called The Courant. At the age of seventeen Ben quit his job and found a job with a printer in Philadelphia. Ben worked there for a couple of years and then finally left to open up his own print shop. Ben produced the paper called, The Pennsylvania Gazette.

The Gazette was the first paper to have cartoons, jokes, weather, and an edition with an editorial page. While working on the

As Ben got older his vision began to fail. It got so bad that Ben had to find something to help his vision. He came up with a pair of bifocals by combining two spectacles. Bifocals are more effective because they have two spectacles not just once. Ordinary glasses were still around but the bifocals were used with people with really poor vision. While working on all these projects Ben had time to come up with the first political cartoon called, "Join or Die." It appeared in the Pennsylvania Gazette. Political cartoons were used for people to express there ideas through a comic, the were usually funny but had a point that the author was trying to make. One of Ben's most helpful discoveries was the discovery of vitamin C.

Ben came up with a flexible urinary catheter which was the first of its time. As Ben aged he had trouble reaching high books from his library. He had many grandchildren to help him, but he still wanted to figure out a way to reach them when they were not around. Ben made something called a long arm which could reach high books. The long arm was made up of a long wooden pole with a grasping claw at the end. Now Ben created many inventions that had a great impact on life. His inventions range from the Franklin Stove to discovering vitamin C. Ben was a very famous man and without him we wouldn't be as advanced as we are today in the U.S. or the world. He contributed a great deal not only to science but to all aspects of life. At the age of eighty-four Ben died in Philadelphia. He was baried in Christ Church next to his old book shop.

I doubt that I could duplicate his accomplishments because back

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