“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
Ben Franklin (1706-1790), one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706. Yesterday, January 17th, was the 305th Anniversary of his birth.
Franklin was a leading author and printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass ‘armonica’. He formed both the first public lending library in America and the first fire department in Pennsylvania.
Franklin once created a list of 13 virtues to live by. They include:
- temperance
- silence
- order
- resolution
- frugality
- industry
- sincerity
- justice
- moderation
- cleanliness
- tranquility
- chastity
- humility
Read more about Ben Franklin at The Franklin Institute website at: fi.edu/franklin/birthday/faq.html.
For an article “Ben Franklin’s Most Enduring inventions, go to gizmodo.com/5735820/benjamin-franklins-most-enduring-inventions.
