Dr. Benjamin Franklin Small 247×320 Medium 493×640 Large 789×1024 Download Tiff Original 1882×2442 | (13.2 MB) Description (1706-1790) United States diplomat, inventor, politician, and printer. Invented the Franklin stove, lighting rod and bifocal glasses. Served in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 Keywords Ben Franklin, electricity, inventor, kinventors, portrait Galleries Famous People: F, Inventors Source: John Clark Ridpath, History of the US from Aboriginal Times to Taft's Administration (New York: The Review of Reviews Company, 1911) 2:416
