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Thursday, September 11, 2003

Ben Franklin's Prolific and Eclectic Inventiveness

Ben Franklin invented, among other things; bifocals, a flexible urinary catheter, watertight bulkheads, the lightning rod, the franklin stove, fire insurance companies, fire companies, and his own odometer. How did he do it? What kind of thinker was he that he could invent so many knew and useful things in so many different fields?
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