Stealing God s Thunder Benjamin Franklin s Lighting Rod...

Professor John Greg Thompson American History 1 11/30/16 The book Stealing God’s Thunder Benjamin Franklin’s Lighting Rod and the invention of America. By, Philip Dray renowned author, writer, and historian. Philip is known for his comprehensiveness of World history pertaining to racial, scientific, labor and social matters. Dray navigates the reader in an up-close and personal look into the life of Benjamin Franklin, as a youth well into his senior years until death. He outlined facts; Ben was an Inventor/scientist long before he entertained the thought of becoming a diplomat, civic leader, abolitionist and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. The message Dray points out about Benjamin Franklin is although he was a political figure, his first love was curiosity of nature and experimenting. Philip Dray covers several areas of Franklin s activities, but he focuses on his scientific work, especiallyelectricity. All through his life he continued to increase his intelligence. He had a high quality of life; he had strong beliefs in his ideas thoughts and beliefs. He wasn t perfect but he always tried to achieve perfection. He always took a scientific approach to everything but he didn t see it as such. He wasn t aware the he was inventing. He was just trying to figure out solutions to his problems. During His first experiment he didn t even realize that he would be labeled as an inventor. Again, he was just finding a solution to anything that