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Profiles a man whose childhood love of reading and desire to know about everything led to a multifaceted career as an inventor, scientist, printer, and statesman.
While his father unsuccessfully apprentices him to a joiner, a shoemaker, and a turner, young Benjamin experiments swimming and a kite, and eventually ends up as a printer's apprentice.