In 1723, Benjamin went to Philadelphia which, at that time, was a small town with less than 10,000 people. In 50 years though, Philadel

Benjamin set foot back on Pennsylvania on May 5, 1775. He was almost seventy years old. The revolutionary war began less than a month before with the “shot heard around the world” in Massachusetts. The morning after he got there, he was chosen to be a delegate to represent Pennsylvania in the Second Continental Congress. The Congress assembled political leaders from all the thirteen colonies and they talked about their future relationship with Great Britain. Benjamin realized he was the oldest representative there. Because of his network in Europe, he was valuable in the colonial independence movement.

Benjamin became interested in electricity, after witnessing demonstrations of static charge. By rubbing silk on glass tubes, he could create a static charge which could be used in many of his experiments. He set up long pointed rods to attract lightening. These metal rods were eventually used as lightening rods to protect peoples dwellings by attracting the lightening, then sending it straight to the ground.

During the French and Indian Wa

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