Involve Me And I Remember: Benjamin Franklin

“Teach me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” This is one of the many quotes of Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin was not only just a scientist, but he was also an author, politician, inventor, and much more. His inventions lead to many of today’s machines we use today in the world. His childhood leads up to what made him famous and remembered throughout history, studying with electricity. Franklin was the youngest child in his family and was born on January 17, 1706. Franklin is the 15th child and youngest son because his father, Josiah Franklin, had seven children with the first wife then 10 more with the second wife. Franklin learned how to read at a small age and had success in his school, Boston Latin School. Then,

Franklin made lots of inventions as well as the stove, rocking chair, flexible catheter, and American penny. Franklin even made bifocal glasses. The bifocal glasses help you read and see things better from far away. “The upper half of the glasses are used for distance while the lower half was for reading.” The stove was one of the his most famous inventions and was made in the 1740’s. The reason he built the stove was to heat the house while using less fuel. Experimenting with electricity was why Franklin was famous. Before doing the kite experiment, he made a laboratory in his house, and he experimented with electricity. After all of the experiments with electricity, he wrote a book about electricity. “In the year of 1752, Franklin and William, his son, went to the meadow when a thunderstorm was happening; then, they flew a kite with a metal key on the string. The lighting then hit the string of the kite, and Franklin saw an electrical spark from the key.” Franklin made the theory that lightning was electricity. After the electrical theory, Franklin invented the lightning rod to protect houses from lightning bolts. “He also had helped with the Declaration of Independence, the U.S Constitution, and he negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary