Benjamin Franklin, n.All

Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod in 1749.

Benjamin Franklin knew the benefit of investing. When he died in 1790, he willed both Boston and Philadelphia $4,400 each with the stipulation that the money could not be spent for 200 years. By 1990, Boston's trust was worth over $5 million.

Benjamin Franklin is a crafty and lecherous old hypocrite whose very statue seems to gloat on the wenches as they walk the States House Yard.

Benjamin Franklin is the incarnation of the peddling, tuppenny Yankee.

Benjamin Franklin became a vocal advocate for inoculation after losing his oldest son to smallpox.

Benjamin Franklin is a man who snatched the lightning from heaven and the sceptre from tyrants.

Benjamin Franklin was a slaveowner for much of his life until he visited a school for black children and discovered that African ignorance was not inherently natural but come from lack of education, slavery and negative environments.

Benjamin Franklin's mind was ever young: his temper ever serene. Science, that never grows grey, was always his mistress.

Benjamin Franklin was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1968.

Benjamin Franklin is a philosophical Quaker full of mean and thrifty maxims.

Benjamin Franklin is the greatest man and ornament of the age and country in which he lived.

lightning rod. . . was invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1749

Benjamin Franklin became a vegetarian, in part because he could save half of what his brother paid him, to buy more books, he also considered the consumption of meat to be "unprovoked murder".

Benjamin Franklin is our wise prophet of chicanery, the great buffoon.

Benjamin Franklin is a crafty and lecherous old hypocrite whose very statue seems to gloat on the wenches as they walk the States House yard.