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How did Franklin’s inventions influence the daily lives of colonists?

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Answer: His groundbreaking discoveries in the science of electricity in the late 1740's and early 1750's catapulted him from obscure scientific amateur to status as the most famous American in the world. Franklin's fame thrust him onto an international stage and made possible his pivotal role in the American Revolution.

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Benjamin Franklin was many things in his lifetime: a printer, a postmaster, an ambassador, an author, a scientist, a Founding Father. Above all, he was an inventor, creating solutions to common problems, innovating new technology, and even making life a little more musical.

Despite creating some of the most successful and popular inventions of the modern world, Franklin never patented a single one, believing that they should be shared freely: "That as we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others, we should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any Invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."

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