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Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, And George Washington
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington, all great men who founded our country. Each one with a different background, that changed their future. One of those men, Benjamin Franklin, was a well-known scientist, printer, politician, freemason, inventor, and much more. He had a different childhood, from what you might see today, but still came out being the brilliant man that he was. Like all of us he had dreams, but that wasn’t what he was destined to do. Franklin was well known for many of his writings and inventions. Today we see Ron Paul, a man much like Franklin.
Benjamin Franklin was like many of the children of his time. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on
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He is famous for bifocal spectacles, the American Philosophical Society and the founding of Electricity. Benjamin Franklin wore spectacles himself, but he felt he was limited by them. They were hard to read with, which made his job difficult because he was a printer. His vision also went blurry when looking at light. In 1739 at age 33, he fixed the problem by creating split lenses, now there was two focusing distances, close and far. The bottom half were for close up, such as reading. The top part was meant for seeing great distance. One of Franklin’s greatest organizations was the American Philosophical Society or the A.P.S. It was found in 1743, by Franklin himself, and it is still around today. The A.P.S. was a forum. There the members discussed scientific theories and new ideas, and it was also used to promote use of knowledge. Franklin established it so well, that the American Philosophical Society is the oldest learned society in America. Benjamin Franklin is also known for giving us an understanding of electricity. His experiment is one that today is taught in schools all around America. It all started in the summer of 1743, when he went to science show. Ben saw electricity being used for entertainment and he became intrigued, so he left to understand it, something that no one had accomplished yet. When studying he said this “For my own part, I never was before …show more content…
Ron Paul is a famous politician, physician, and author. He too had many other siblings, but not quite sixteen, like Franklin. Paul is a politician, and ran for president in 1988 and again 2008. He did not win either time, but doesn’t mean he's any less breathtaking. He was also delegate to the Texas Republican Convention. Franklin himself was a delegate in Pennsylvania Convention, as well as a politician. Ron Paul is also a physician, which is technically a scientist, and Benjamin Franklin was a scientist as well. Most important of all, Paul is an author, and a very good one at that. Ben made most of his wealth from his books, almanacs, newspapers, and other published. Paul writes many historical books about things like the revolution, a war that Ben lived through and supported, which created our country today. Paul once said, “The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.”(Paul) This is an idea that Ben

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