Thanks for the fish so you too have read a hichhikers guide to the galaxy for that is the end of the book. Ben Franklin had a pretty famous serbian immigrant by the name of Nicola Tesla in his employ and ran the local patent office, the local paper that he ran propiganda on under the pseudonym Silus doogood. I am not at all convinced that what was credited to him was actually his just like the radio attributed to marconi. Franklin's description of how he discovered electricity would have killed him. Franklin's inventivness dwindled when Tesla went to work for westinghouse, Because his brains had left the building. I believe franklin to be a total fraud.

I think you mean Thomas Edison.