Electricity's discovery was a great contribution. The almanac was also a great invention. It had information, interesting facts, and sayings, like," a penny saved is a penny earned" and "Eat to live, not live to eat". These things have changed our world in great ways. He also invented the bifocal glasses so people could see better if they needed it.
If Ben were alive today, I think he would try out more new ideas with electricity. I think one place you would find him is the science lab. He would probably be at least the hardest worker and the best researcher. Benjamin might invent something that helps one of our senses better like the bifocal glasses. He would also continue to print a newspaper and an almanac, but with more people and with computers.
Ben has made many important contributions to our country.  Scientists like Michael Faraday continued research on sources of energy and electricity. Even today, Ben lived in the Colonial Time Period. There were not too many facilities at the time. This inspired Benjamin to come up with some new ideas. For instance: The city hospital he organized, correctly, was the first in America. Also, when he became deputy postmaster general, the post office was the only one of its kind in America. He also would not have invented the almanac if somebody else already had made one and was still printing it.
Benjamin Franklin died on April 17, 1790. He was 84 years old. Ben died of pleurisy. Pleurisy is the inflammation of the tissue that covers the lungs and lines the chest cavity.  On his epitaph, the death stones, he wrote," The Body of B Franklin, Printer, Lays here, Food for worms. But the Work shall not be lost; for it will appear once more, in a new and more elegant Edition, Revised and corrected By the Author."     
Ben was very imaginative, and had many ideas to experiment with. If you are creative, imaginative, have many ideas and aren't afraid to try them out, maybe we will have a new inventor some day! If this is your plan, see you at the lab! Scientists still research and study electricity and are learning more about it.


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