Benjamin Franklin's Invention And Discovery

The name of my scientist/ inventor is Benjamin Franklin. I chose Benjamin Franklin because I thought he was a good choice of what he invented and did as a scientist. Benjamin Franklin was many things such as a Founding Father, polymath, inventor, scientist, printer, politician, freemason and diplomat. The thing he is most know for is as one of the Founding Fathers who drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Benjamin Franklin was born American and in Boston, Massachusetts in January 17th 1706 and died April 17th, 1790. His studies led him into electricity, mathematics and mapmaking. He is a writer known for his cleverness and wisdom, Benjamin Franklin made and published a book called Poor Richard’s

Benjamin Franklins Inventions and Discoveries are the Franklins stove, Bifocals, Armonica or Harmonica, Rocking chair, Flexible catheter, and the American penny. Benjamin Franklin did a experiment using surfactants on a pond at Clapham Common, where which he poured a small amount of oleic acid, a natural surfactant which tends to form a dense film at the water-air interface. He measured the volume required to cover all the pond. Knowing the area, he then knew the height of the film, something like three nanometers in our current units. Benjamin Franklin also investigated the principle of refrigeration by evaporation. Benjamin Franklin who taught himself education earned him honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, England’s Oxford University and Scotland’s University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Benjamin Franklin who did so much to help and improve this world until he died at age 84 by pleurisy or gout which he had complained for some time . He had a funeral, composed of citizens of all stripes, headed toward the Christ Church burial ground. It is estimated that 20,000 mourners gathered for the