Printer

Inventor

Statesman

Writer

Scientist

Diplomat

Benjamin Franklin

Ben Franklin said:• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy,

and wise.

• He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.

• If you would not be forgottenAs soon as you are dead and rotten,Either write things worthy reading,Or do things worth the writing.

• This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

• Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

Early Years• Parents emigrated to Boston

in 1683

• Father, Josiah, was a candle

and soap making.

• Born in Boston on January 17,1706

• one of 10 children

• Father, Josiah apprenticed Ben to

his other son’s printing business

• Apprentice for 9 years from 12 years old to 21 years old

Birthplace of Benjamin Franklin: The House on Milk Street

Ben knew his brother wouldn’t publish his works so at 16 years old started writing under the name of SilenceDogood.

•Became popular

•Brothers fought

Franklin left Boston and his brother moved to Philadelphia on October 8th,

original printing press Franklin used

Moved to Philadelphia •Arrived with 3 pennies in pocket bought a loaf of bread

• found a position as a journeyman printer

•Meet Deborah Read his future wife.

•Befriended Gov. encouraged him to travel to London

•Worked in London as a printer

Returned to Philadelphia bound to work for the merchant Thomas Denham

Deborah

Atkins

Franklin - Printer1729 Started publishing

The Pennsylvania Gazette.

1730 married Deborah Atkins

1732, Franklin published his first almanac-

Poor Richard's Almanack

Most printed book in the colonies

Almanac- book published yearly

Almanacs of the era were printed annually, and contained things like weather reports, recipes, predictions and homilies.

Statesman1736, when he was elected clerk of the state legislature.

1737 he was appointed to the position of Post-Master.

1748,The Franklin stove, invented at the age of 42, improved heating and reduced fire hazards in Philadelphia.

•1752, Franklin performed his famous kite experiment with the aid of his twenty-one year old son, William. Invented Lightning Rod

•Franklin coined the electrical terms we use today, such as battery, positive/negative, and charge

Franklin invented the medical instrument known as a catheter

•At 70, Franklin delegate to Second Continental Congress

•Postmaster of the Colonies

•Head of the Committee of Safety, whose function was to defend the colonies. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin, to begin formulating the Declaration of Independence.

Ambassador to Paris•Mission to get the French help finance the war.

•Franklin wore his rustic fur cap, which the French ,considered a symbol of America

•Franklin aided the Revolutionary Army by enlisting the aid of two foreign soldiers: Marquis de Lafayette and Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron von Steuben.

• Signed the Treaty of Alliance with France in 1778

• Money and French Navy helped to win the war.

•Invented the bifocals

Constitutions Convention 1787

•1787,. A Constitutional Convention was called in hopes of designing a more efficient form of government with the appropriate balance between state and central authority

•.Appointed as a delegate from Pennsylvania, Benjamin was the oldest member in attendance on September 17, 1787

• He was transported to and from the meeting hall on a sedan chair.

•He backed the document and the new form of government it established.

•Franklin quietly passed away on April 17, 1790, surrounded by his grandchildren.

•Franklin's funeral, on April 21, was an enormous public spectacle.

•Over twenty thousand citizens gathered to pay a tribute to the American hero.

• Buried in a plot beside his wife, Deborah, and son, Francis.

Ben Franklin $100.00

There were four key documents which led to the formation of the United States of America. Ben was the only person to sign all four documents. They are:1. The Declaration of Independence: it declared the American colonies independent from English rule.2. The Treaty of Alliance with France: it brought French money, troops and arms to the American colonies to aid their fight against England.3. The Treaty of Paris: it ended the American Revolution and recognized the independence of the United States.4. The Constitution of the United States: it describes the laws of the United States.