Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 the 17th of January in Boston Massachusetts. He was into a devoted Puritan household; in 1683 his family had left England and moved to New England in search of religious freedom. His father was a mechanic and a candle maker and his mother raised thirteen children. When he was little he worked with his father making candles and soap at his father shop even though he didn’t like it. He left the shop to go work with his brother James who was a printer of a Boston Newspaper. By that job he loved to read and became vegetarian to save money to buy books. Benjamin wrote his own critical articles so James left him so he could continue by himself. In 1723 he left home and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with only seventeen years. Then he stared to get into ideas of Enlightenment like Sir Isaac Newton.
In Philadelphia he started his own printing press, publishing a newspaper called the Pennsylvania Gazette, at the same time he operated a bookshop and develop partnerships with other printers. He also involved in community improvement in 1727 by organizing a club of tradesmen whose activities include sponsoring a library and it was named Junto, a fire company, a college, an insurance company, and a hospital. Benjamin got really deep into inventions, science and electricity when he invented a metal stove used for heating a room known as the Franklin stove and his invention of the lightning rod that is a metal rod that is set on top of a building to protect it from being damage if it is struck by lightning. He also made experiments like the one in which he used a kite to prove that lightning is a form of electricity. Many of his inventions and experiments made him a famous person.
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