more so than Benjamin Franklin. Ben is considered one of America's greatest citizens.

He accomplished many things in his lifetime; he was a scientist, an inventor, a

politician, a printer, a philosopher, a musician, and an economist. In the 1700s, a

scientist was someone who thought about the way things work and tried to figure out

ways to make things work better. Every time Ben Franklin saw a question and tried to

answer it, he was a scientist. Ben is most famous for his questions about electricity, but

he also experimented with many other ideas in nature. Ben did many studies on

electricity , not just lightning. Franklin received an electricity tube from his friend Peter

Collinson and began to play around with it, performing a vast amount of experiments.

However, it is Ben's interest in lightning that is best remembered. Ben hypothesized

that lightning was an electrical current. To test his theory he needed to see whether or

not lightning would pass through metal. So he attached a metal key to a kite and flew it

in a storm. His experiment proved that lightning was a stream of electrified air, known

were moving the opposite direction from where the wind was blowing. Franklin believed

lens in one frame, inventing what we call today, bifocals. Though Ben is not known for

news stories, and letters to the editor. He believed in the power of the press, using his

the routes and needed a way to keep track of the distance. He invented a simple

so that everyone could understand the news, especially to people who had not learned

writing helped us become a nation. Ben stands alone as the only person to have signed

In 1743, Ben Franklin was watching a storm move In. He wondered why the storms

citizens. We honor him as one of our founding fathers and his

studding bioscience, he was interested in how the human body works. His contribution

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