Close your eyes and imagine a world without America and electricity. The world in your mind would become reality if it wasn’t for the actions of one man, Benjamin Franklin. Discovering electricity with his legendary kite experiment, and helping America in the revolution serving as a diplomat and a head figure, Benjamin franklin is perhaps the most impactful figure throughout the history of America. One dismal day, the clouds were ominous, forecasting a thunderstorm in the city of Philadelphia. A simple man by the name of Benjamin Franklin, was about to make the greatest discovery in the human history. He let the kite fly in the impulsive thunderclouds, as he waited a bolt of lightning struck the …show more content…
The fear of lighting faded from the public, as the invention called lightning rod has been created and patented by Benjamin Franklin in 1749. The revolutionary invention utilized the nature of lighting studied by Franklin, and use its property to dissolve the lighting safely. As the invention was so effective in its job, the lighting rod became a traditional equipment in most of buildings. If the population thinks about a general image of Benjamin Franklin, they would imagine him with another one of his impactful invention, the bifocals. Giving people the ability to see more clear, the bifocals were revolutionary in its uses. Helping men and women all over the world with their sight. Today, the bifocals are common in the elderly, but not so much as in the younger generations. However, the progressive glasses, otherwise known as no-line bifocals, were inspired from this early invention. By using his gifted intellect and creative mind, the inventions from Benjamin Franklin are still used to this …show more content…
Feeling empathy for the upstarting colonies, the wise and daring Ben Franklin represented for the colonies in front of the parliament, persuading them to withdraw the Stamp Act. After he and other future founding fathers enticed the colonies for the revolutionary war, Benjamin put his eloquent tongue to work as a diplomat in France. His work as an diplomat was such a crucial part in the war, even the generals of the continental army admitted that without the help from France, they would not have won the war. A leader in his own ways, Benjamin Franklin's work as a diplomat was the integral part of the Revolutionary war. His work on the Declaration of Independence was perhaps more impactful than the writer himself, Thomas Jefferson. Although Thomas Jefferson was the principal author, the main ideas of the Declaration of Independence was said to have come from Benjamin Franklin. Without his constant work to free the colonies, without his brave nature and his loyalty to the colonies, America would have been a concept in the minds of many. Even with some miraculous events that led America to victory, some of the rights that we express wouldn’t exist, as the ideas from Benjamin Franklin wouldn’t have been accounted by Thomas Jefferson. With the cooperation from all the men fighting in the revolutionary war, America