what was the saddest moment in benjamin franklins life (the inventor) ?
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When his brother died in a vat of candle wax.
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sad to say, it was ben
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Ben Franklin--Go fly a kite in a lightning storm and attach a key. It is  sure to be en-lightning..lol
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benjamin franklin 1775
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How about Rosalind Franklin?\nhttp://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BC/Rosalind_Franklin.html
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Benjamin Franklin, 1st Continental Congress (I think, but i know it was BF)
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"Thomas Edison tried and failed nearly 2000 times to develop the carbonized cotton thread filiment for the incandescent light bulb.  When asked about it, he said, 'I didn't fail. I found out 2000 ways how not to make a light bulb.'  But he only needed to find one way to make it work."\n\nFrom National Treasure
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Yes, it is such a huge loss. He was a very talented man. My prayers go out to his family, especially the children.
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Benjamin Franklin realized that electrical charges came in two types, which he called positive and negative. \n\nRubbing smooth wool over rough wax produces a huge static electric charge on both the wax and the wool, and the charge can be released in the form of a spark. It was clear that electricity was flowing from one to the other, but which way? Franklin couldn't tell, so he guessed, assigning a "positive" electric charge to the wax and the "negative" electric charge to the wool. \n\nIt turned out he was wrong, but it took over a century to discover that.
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I think of the saddest moment in my life...\n\nWe were all out at the zoo one day, I was doing some acting, walking on the railing of the gorilla exhibit. I fell in. Everyone screamed and Tommy jumped in after me, forgetting that he had blueberries in his front pocket. The gorillas just went wild. They jumped all over his body and threw him around like a rag doll to get to those blueberries. One gorilla would throw him to another gorilla who tossed him to another. Everyone panicked and cried out for somebody to help but it was too late. The gorillas beat him to death before the zookeepers could gas them all.
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I think it was Ben Franklin. He did believe that freedom had it's cost.
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Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor. Today, Bell is still widely considered to be the foremost inventor of the telephone, although this matter has become controversial, with a number of people claiming that Antonio Meucci was the "real" inventor (in June 2002, the United States House of Representatives passed a symbolic bill officially recognizing Meucci for his contributions to the invention of the telephone).\n\nMore at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell\n\nor\n\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelephone2.htm\n\nor\n\nhttp://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/11.html
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I think the scientists who made the greatest contribution of all time was Alexander Gram Bell even though he was not really scientists and more like a inventor. His invention the telephone is what now makes the world go round. The telephone lead to the internet, and being able to send mass amounts of information.
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click here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford\n\nuse Wikipedia
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Lightning rod http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/images/rod.jpg\n\nFranklin Stove\nhttp://sln.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/images/franklinstove.jpg\n\nOdometer\nhttp://sln.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/images/odometer.jpg
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He wrote as Silence Dogood in the New England Courant.\n\nyou can even read some of those letters here -\n\nhttp://www.ushistory.org/franklin/courant/\n\nHe also published the Pennsylvania Gazette and Poor Richard's Almanack.
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I think you're confusing Thomas Jefferson with Benjamin Franklin.\n\nAnd he didn't "make" electricity, per sey, but there were significant events which prompted his interests in researching and attempting to reproduce electricity in a controlled fashion.\n\nThe main two are lightning bolts and static shock.  While technically, these are two aspects of friction and only differ in magnitude, he considered them separate entities as one was generated by air (gaseous material) and the other by tangible objects (solid material).  The third influence in his research and discovery stems back to when he was stung by a jellyfish in his youth and pondered how so simple a creature could harness such a perplexing force.