what are 2 inventions benjamin franklin is credited with creating?
Lightning rod Franklin stove Bifocals Glass harmonica
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 Nor is this theme of cutthroat competition limited to prestidigitation : the script incorporates the popular notion that Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison were directly engaged in the War of Currents , a rivalry over electrical standards , which appears in the film in parallel to Borden and Angier 's competition for magical supremacy . In the book , Tesla and Edison serve as foils for Borden and Angier , respectively . 

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 The book was popular in the Thirteen Colonies of America , and its appeal survived the American War of Independence , copies being owned by Benjamin Franklin , Thomas Jefferson and George Washington . 

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 John Adams persuaded the committee to select Thomas Jefferson to compose the original draft of the document , which Congress would edit to produce the final version . The Declaration was ultimately a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain , more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War . The next day , July 3 , John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail : " The Second Day of July 1776 , will be the most memorable Epocha , in the History of America . " But the national birthday , Independence Day , is celebrated on July 4 , the date that the Declaration of Independence was signed . 

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