Role Model Of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin represents a role model of an American who started from rags to riches. Benjamin Franklin structured the American life politically by structuring the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Stamp Act, The Treaty of Paris, as well as other important acts and documents. Economically he helped create jobs by being an inventor and entrepreneur. Socially he fought for the education of man.

The Albany Plan of Union was a proposal to create a unified government for the thirteen colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at New York in July 1754 in Albany. This plan was to form a government between the thirteen colonies so they will not create conflict with one another.

He was part of a committee to help draft the Declaration of Independence. This document announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Franklin did not write this document instead Thomas Jefferson wrote the document. Franklin was an advisor and editor. Once the Declaration of Independence was complete it was presented to Congress and signed stating that the American colonies should be free and able to form a free

Benjamin Franklin’s idea of the Franklin stove became popular because he attached a long pipe, to a big black pot, going up to the roof of he house. This not only helps warm a home, but it also allowed the smoke to go outside other than inside the home to protect the lungs of the people. The stove also cut down the use of wood. The Franklin stove that he created was much more durable than the old style- a small furnace with a pot cooking over it. Franklin did not patent any of his inventions, instead he allowed other people to redesign and sell his basic inventions so they may earn a living.

Benjamin Franklin’s greatest invention was the bifocal glasses. This idea came to him with age because he kept switching between two types of glasses. He had trouble seeing both up close and at a distance. Franklin had his optician take the lenses from his two sets of glasses, cut the lenses in two horizontally, and then mount them back into spectacle frames, with the lens for close work at the bottom and the lens for distance at the top