Showing posts with label Benjamin Franklin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benjamin Franklin. Show all posts

Monday, 11 April 2022

Benjamin Franklin Inventions



1. The lightning rod
2. Bifocals
3. The glass armonica
4. The Franklin stove
5. The library stepstool, a chair whose seat could be lifted and folded down to make a short ladder.
(Also a mechanical arm for reaching books on high shelves)
6. The rocking chair
7. The writing chair
8. The odometer
9. A pulley system that enabled him to lock and unlock his bedroom door from his bed
10. The flexible urinary catheter.

Places in England with an X in

Halifax Oxford Felixstowe Exeter Uttoxeter Wroxeter Axminster Brixham Buxton Oxted (There's Wrexham too in Wales and Saxmundham, etc)