... It was a lesson he never forgot" (Meltzer 23). Franklin's education started at home. At the age of eight he went to Latin school. George Brownell taught him soon after he was finished with Latin school. He went there regularly until his teacher stopped teaching the boys to go teach the young women of the ... school. After this took place he ended his schooling at the age of ten (McMaster 3). After schooling Franklin had many jobs. His jobs ... a chair that turns into a latter, a clothes pressing machine, improvements in the printing press, a pole with a manipulable grasp at the end to t...

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... led to many other roads. This also led to lighting in the streets, formation of a volunteer fire station, a police force, I started a academy for higher education ( university of Penn), I started many school including those for blacks and Indians, I also started a hospital. "so in your early thirties you were a assembly clerk, postmaster, and sponsor of libraries, hospitals, academies and a college?" Correct Tell me ... , the flexible catheter, a chair that can be converted into a ladder, a clothes pressing machine, improvements on the printing press, pole with a manipulable grasp at the...

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... States (1782), and the Constitution of the United States (1787). He actually helped to write and change parts of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. No other person was more involved in our nation's birth. Benjamin's parents were Josiah and Abiah Franklin. Benjamin was the youngest of ten sons ... few of his more famous inventions, he made a stepladder stool with a seat that turned up, his "Y-stick" that allowed him to reach books on high shelves, the Franklin stove, a clock with three wheels for hours, minutes, and seconds, bifocal glasses, made "magic squares", and made ve...

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