The idea of Day Light Savings Time was first proposed by a 78 year old Benjamin Franklin while he was living in France in 1784. That same year he also invented bifocals and a year earlier he witnessed the first manned balloon flight. When he died in 1790, he was one of the richest men in America.
Ben was an entrepreneur starting a printing business we all know about, but he also formed about a dozen printing partnerships throughout the Colonies, ran a font manufacturing business, was a paper distributor, newspaper and book publisher, paper currency printer and for 25 years wrote an almanac that became the largest selling book in the Colonies.
At the age of 42, Franklin “retired” from his printing business by selling it for half the profits for 18 years. In effect, he exchanged half his income for all of his time. When he died he was not known for his wealth or business activities, but for what he did afterwards, one of which was to help create the United States of America. Day Light Savings Time is but a minor postscript in his bio.
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