Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin also called the First American was born in January 17, 1706. And died in April 17, 1790 is a great example of a genius human being that helped these world advance in a very good way. With his inventions helped revolutionize the way we make things, we even use the different things he invented. He apart from being a great inventor was also an author and printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. All these things together made him a genius, simply a brilliant guy. His accomplishments were many, that even 100 people together could not make a better life carrier, these men is an important piece on the worlds history, an important and unique piece.

Baptized at Old South Meeting House, Benjamin Franklin was the 15th of his father's 17 children. He went to school as a child with the purpose of becoming a minister, as his father, Josiah wanted. But  that idea was impossible after Franklin good a keen interest in reading and writing. For Franklin, his school ended when he was ten. He then worked for his father for a time and at 12 he became an apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who taught Ben the printing trade. When Ben was 15, James founded The New-England Courant, which was the first truly independent newspaper in the colonies. At age 17, Franklin ran away to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania working in a printing house, Franklin was convinced by Pennsylvania Governor Sir William Keith to go to London to get  the things necessary for establishing another newspaper in Philadelphia. Franklin worked as a typesetter in a printer's shop in what is now the Church of St Bartholomew-the-Great in London. He returned to Philadelphia and worked as clerk, shopkeeper,  bookeeper.