Benjamin Franklin, Inventor, Statesman, and Patriot
Entry/Object ID
L1979.28.109
Description
Benjamin Franklin, Inventor, Statesman, and Patriot begins when he was ten years old.. His experience in school was brief. He only attended two years of grammar school and failed arithmetic. He was an independent printer at the age of twenty-two. He published a newspaper and later published Poor Richard's Almanack. At age forty-two, Ben retired from business and devoted his life to science and invention.
Franklin's success as a diplomat was phenomenal. He persuaded the French to aid the American colonies in their fight against England. After the war, he helped to write the Constitution of the new United States of America. He died at the age of 84. He hoped people would say of him, "He lived usefully".