Thursday, June 23, 2011

Franklin Benjamin Facts

  • Benjamin Franklin used to keep a list of “13 virtues.” If he violeted one, he would check it off, and use it as motivation to improv e his moral standing.
  • Benjamin Franklin did not graduate from school but The Harvard and the Yale Universities awarded him honorary degrees. Later in 1762, the Oxford University awarded him a doctorate.
  • Benjamin Franklin interestingly founded the a fire fighting company
  • It is a fact that Ben Franklin once wrote in the newspapers under the anonym Mrs Silence Dogood.
  • Franklin also invented the glass harmonica
  • Ben Franklin did not like patents and so failed to patent many of his inventions

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