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Health is Wealth: The Alkaline Paleo Diet for Prosperity
BF raised himself from Latin Grammar School clergy dropout to tallow chandler apprentice to his father making candles and soap, to apprentice printer for his older brother.
BF had a falling out with his older brother who would not publish his work. BF wrote popular satirical Letters to the Editor on current events in the pseudonym of Mrs Silence Dogood. He was found out and reprimanded.
BF ran away from home at 17. He became a fugitive and father of an illegitimate son William, the last Loyalist Governor of New Jersey.
BF made himself printer, satirist, merchant, author-publisher of Poor Richard’s Almanack under the penname of Richard Saunders, publisher of the Masonic Constitution, author-publisher of Father Abraham’s Sermon on the Way to Wealth, the Pennsylvania Gazette and his Autobiography. All praised humble common sense, simple thrift and virtue, including paying it forward. The colonies were hungry for his vision and values.
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Using satire and pseudonyms, BF became a widely circulated author. He partnered profits from his printing business with his foreman for 18 years, which allowed him leisure time to pursue his interests and investments.
He wrote up his ideas for the American Philosophical Society and became famous as a scientist philosopher in Europe.
BF was Freemason Grandmaster and Rosicrucian scientist. He founded Franklin and Marshall College, The Junto discussion group at 21, and a forerunner of University of Pennsylvania.
BF was an avid chess player, composer and musician. He played the harp, guitar and violin and his glass harmonica invention with spinning crystal disks and wet fingers. He also spoke French and Italian.
Solving challenges in his own life, BF invented bifocals, the flexible urinary catheter, Franklin Stove, glass harmonica, lightning rod and odometer.
As postmaster, to speed up transoceanic mail, BF became the first maritime scientist who charted the Gulf Stream. He cut two weeks off the round trip of mail packets. BF had useful ideas for the catamaran, marine lightning rod, evaporative cooling, sea anchors and watertight compartments to protect ships at sea.
