Franklin's printing business prospered from the start. He developed The Pennsylvania Gazette into one of the most successful newspapers in the colonies. He published it from 1729 until 1766. Franklin was often on the lookout for new ideas. Historians credit him as the first editor in America to publish a newspaper cartoon and to illustrate a news story with a map. He laid many of his projects for civic reform before the public in his newspaper.
MHM....The Pennsylvania Gazette?
Franklin stood in the front rank of the people who built the United States. He was the only person who signed all four of these key documents in American history: the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Alliance with France, the Treaty of Paris that made peace with Great Britain, and the Constitution of the United States.
I guess you could say I am a pretty important person
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In 1752, he described how he flew a homemade kite during a thunderstorm to prove that lightning is a giant electric spark. According to Franklin, a bolt of lightning struck a pointed wire fastened to the kite and traveled down the kite string to a key fastened at the end, where it caused a spark. Franklin also tamed lightning by inventing the lightning rod