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- Benjamin Franklin was one of the founding fathers of the United States of America.
- He was a writer, scientist, political philosopher, inventor, diplomat, statesman, publisher and printer.
- He was one of the people who drafted and signed the United States Declaration of Independence.
- He was the first United States Postmaster General.
- He is famous as a scientist for his studies on electricity.
- He invented the Franklin stove, the lightning rod and bifocal glasses.
- He discovered the principle of conservation of charge.
- Franklin proved that lightning is electricity by conducting a dangerous experiment.
- This experiment involved flying a kite in a storm.
- Franklin was the first to chart and name the current known as the Gulf Stream.