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9/17/08 || __Birth__: January 17, 1706 in Boston, MA. __Education__: Franklin attended school in Boston for only two years. He was good in reading, fair in writing and very poor in math. Franklin started a college in 1749 called The University of Pennsylvania. Benjamin’s dad needed help in his candle and soap making shop so Benjamin didn’t attend anymore school, but he kept reading any book he could find. Benjamin Franklin was his own teacher. __Interesting facts__: ·  Franklin had 16 brothers and sisters and he was the youngest boy. ·  Franklin and his 21 year old son flew a kite with a key attached to the kite during an electrical storm and proved that lightning is electricity. ·  Some of his experiments went wrong like when he was trying to kill a Thanksgiving turkey with an electrical shock and knocked himself unconscious. When he regained consciousness, he said, “I meant to kill a turkey, and instead, I nearly killed a goose.” ·   Franklin started helping his brother at the age of twelve writing a newspaper. ·   Benjamin Franklin also invented the iron top stove. 9/16/08 || **
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 * Benjamin Franklin **
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 * Innovation: Batteries **
 * Benjamin Franklin was the first person who ever came up with the word, battery. According to the Oxford Dictionary, a battery is “a device which provides a source of electric current generated by a chemical reaction.” When Franklin was thinking of the word, battery, he was thinking of electrically charged glass plates. **
 * Ben Franklin came up with a lot of experiments that had to do with electricity like when he and his 22 year old son flew a kite with a key attached to the end of it during an electrical storm. A bolt of lightning hit the kite and traveled down the string and produced an electrical spark when it hit the key. Franklin noticed how powerful force electricity was when he was knocked unconscious instead of killing a turkey for the Thanksgiving meal. He said that he almost killed a goose instead. **
 * This was important because Franklin proved that electricity could be controlled. Later in the 1800s, scientists started trying to invent ways to make electricity serve us. Without Franklin, we wouldn’t have electricity and without electricity, we wouldn’t have batteries and without batteries, we would not have had flashlights, and etc.