Now & Ben

How did lightning rods change communities?

• They made electric lights possible.
• They made homes and buildings safer.
• They made it safe to fly kites in storms.
• They kept streets cleaner by attracting metal.

How are the library chair and the writing chair ALIKE?

• Both have desks built into them.
• Both are used to reach high places.
• Both combine two things into one.
• Both are ideas that were never really used.

How were Ben's flippers DIFFERENT from today's flippers?

• They did not float.
• They were made of wax.
• They were made of wood.
• They were not used in water

Which words from the article give the BEST clue about what a glass armonica is?

• glass armonicas are very rare
• a row of spinning glass bowls
• more likely to find one in a museum
• Mozart and Beethoven were so moved by the sounds

How did Ben Franklin make newpapers DIFFERENT?

• He added photographs.
• He wrote them by hand.
• He added politcal cartoons.
• He started printing them on paper.