What was Benjamin Franklins most important invention?
Benjamin Franklin’s inventions and scientific experiments are well documented. Cases could be made as to which was his most important. Novelist Orson Scott Card proposed a somewhat different theory in his book Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, the first book in a fictional history set in early America. In it, a character known as Taleswapper recounts a conversation between himself and Franklin, during which he asks Franklin what he considers his most important invention. Franklin’s fictional answer? “Americans.” According to the theory, Franklin created Americans by helping people believe in the ideals that inspired American thoughts and actions. How did a man’s distaste for pets lead him to create a million dollar fad? In a conversation with friends, Gary Dahl related that he didn’t care for conventional pets like dogs and cats because they misbehaved and made messes, so he kept a pet that caused none of these problems – The Pet Rock. He and his friends got such a kick out of his idea tha
