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| apprentice | a person who works for a skilled worker in order to learn a trade or skill |
| arithmetic | figuring with numbers, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing |
| bifocals | special eyeglasses with lenses that have one part to help you see close up and another to help you see far away |
| colony | a territory that is far away from the country that governs (rules) it |
| electricity | one of the basic forms of energy in the world |
| almanac | a book published every year with facts about the weather, tides and rising and setting of the sun |
| lightning rod | a rod attached to a building to attract lightning and direct lightning down into the ground so it doesn't hit the building |
| postmaster | a person in charge of a post office |
| printing press | a machine for printing things like newspapers, books and magazines |
| wick | a cord in a candle that burns when it is lit |
| Pennsylvania | one of the 13 original colonies of the United States |
| Philadelphia | a city in Pennsylvania where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were written and where the First Continental Congress met |
