
Meet Benjamin Franklin: The Man Who Invented the Self-Improvement Club
A runaway printer’s apprentice who founded a library, a fire company and a university — and refused to patent a single one of his inventions.
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A runaway printer’s apprentice who founded a library, a fire company and a university — and refused to patent a single one of his inventions.

Three months of schooling, 1,093 patents — and the invention that mattered most was the invention factory itself.

He imagined complete machines in his head, powered the modern world — and died broke, decades ahead of schedule.