Benjamin Franklin Coloring Page

Benjamin Franklin left school at about 10 and went to work as a printer, but he kept teaching himself everything he could. He invented the lightning rod, bifocal glasses and a better iron stove, and he chose not to patent any of them so that anyone could use them.

Most people remember him for the kite he flew in a thunderstorm in 1752. Historians aren’t sure exactly how that experiment went, but the lightning rod it led to was real, and it still protects buildings today. Franklin was also a writer, a diplomat and one of the people who signed the Declaration of Independence.