Yep. And bifocal eyeglasses, and discovered electricity while flying his kite in a storm.
Was also a famous printer and philolsopher and our first ambassador to France.
He was the origin of some famous sayings like, "A penny saved is a penny earned."
I think his picture is on $50 bills, but I never have one long enough to be sure.
Franklin also gave his son advice about all cats being gray in the dark but that is probably not a subject for this family-values board.
At the first constitutinal convention, they had just passed a constitution. Ben remarked that he had been thinking about a painting hanging in the building that depicted either a sunrise or a sunset. He commented that he had wondered which. But with the new constitution, he said, "Now I know that (for the nation), it is a rising sun."
Today, I wonder about the rising sun.