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Over Benjamin Franklin's
lifetime, he invented many different things including a more efficient
wood stove, a smaller user-friendly armonica, bifocal glasses and the
all famous lightning rod.
-The wood stove Ben
Franklin invented was called the Franklin Stove.
He created it because other stoves in that day cause too much smoke and
didn't produce as much heat as they could with the amount of wood used.
The Franklin Stove allowed air to circulate more freely. It had an
air box to allow the air to reach the flame more easily and a hood to
collect the smoke.
-A armonica
was an instrument made from glass which replicated the sound made by
playing water filled wine glasses. Franklin made the machine by using
blown glass to the size needed to create specific tunes. The glass was
rotated using a foot pedal.
-As Franklin grew older, he needed two different pairs of eyeglasses to
see close as well as far. He got tired of always changing his frames so
he invented bifocals
that allowed him to see up close as well as far away. He did this by
placing the lens for viewing up close on the bottom and placing the
lens for viewing farther away on the top.
- Benjamin Franklin's most popular invention is most likely the lightning rod.
Pictured below is believed to be an original lightning rod created by
Franklin himself. The next page will describe the importance of the
lightning rod.
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