Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706. He is famous for being an American revolutionary and Founding Father. He was also a scientist who supposedly discovered electricity while flying a kite. He was also a printer who wrote Poore Richards Almanac which was filled with sayings and other things of use to common people. He died in 1790.

Joseph Turner

Joseph Turner was born in 1775. He was a painter who did Romantic style watercolors. His artwork was mainly landscapes. His atwork was fantastic and extreme showing natures beauty and anger in some cases. One of his paintings, The Fighting Temeraire, was polled in Britain as it's greatest painting.   He died in 1851.