Genius is best shared with the world. #BenjaminFranklin #History #Inventions While Franklin declined to patent the Franklin Stove, local ironmongers had no such qualms. They made slight modifications to his original design to bypass ethical concerns and sold them for significant profit. Franklin never sued or complained; he simply noted that their changes made the stoves work arguably worse. His most personal invention was actually the glass armonica, an instrument that Mozart later composed mus