Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 17, 1706.

Bejamin dropped out

of school when he was 10 years old, and at 11 he started working as an apprentice to his
brother James, a printer who published a newspaper called The New-England Courant
eventually became a contributor to the publication and was a nominal editor, writing the
letters under the pseudonym of Mrs. Silence Dogood, a middle-aged widow.

A religious, Calvinist and a representative figure of the Enlightenment, Franklin was the leader
of the American Revolution and in 1771 became the first Postmaster General of the United
States. He became popular for his quotes and his experiences with electricity and also for
being the first ambassador to the United States.

In 1731, Benjamin Franklin and other Freemasons pooled their resources and started the first
public library in Philadelphia. The following year he began to receive orders for his first books,
which were the majority of theological and educational books. In 1741, a library started to
offer works of other diverse themes and segments. The library's success meant that other units
were opened in other American cities.

In 1732 he began to publish the famous Almanac do Podre Ricardo, which is based on a good
part of its popularity in the United States, because proverbs of this almanac, such as "a penny
saved is a penny earned", famous all over the world. A few years later, in 1758, Franklin
stopped writing for the almanac, printed The Sermon by father Abraham, which today is
considered the most famous text in American literature in colonial times.

Franklin was the founder of the University of Pennsylvania and the American Philosophical
Society, in order to foster the communication of findings among men of science. In the year
1748, Franklin, acquiring a remarkable wealth, devoted himself more to his studies to do his
research on electricity.