The Life of Benjamin Franklin When one takes a look at the world in which he currently lives, he sees it as being normal since it is so slow in changing. When an historian looks at the present, he sees theeffects of many events and many wise people. Benjamin Franklin is one of these people. His participation in so many different fields changed the world immensely. He was a noted politician as well as respected …showed first 75 words of 649 total…

…showed last 75 words of 649 total…that diseases flourished in poorly vented places. This lead to sterile hospital rooms hence better health care. Benjamin Franklin was a mild-mannered widely loved "jack-of-all-trades". His name and reputation will live on forever not only in history books but in the hundreds of inventions, discoveries, improvements, and methods he had devised during his eighty-four year stay in the fields of politics, science, and humanity. What would the world be today had enjamin Franklin not lived?