Musk has called the inventor and public servant a hero. But Franklin had a different vision of serving the public.

Good money management is as American as apple pie, though our Founding Fathers might wonder how Americans have gotten so far off track with their ...

Ben Franklin’s famous experiment with the kite and key gave him a better understanding of the nature of electricity. But did that event lead to the lightning rod? When Benjamin Franklin died in ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin ... the Franklin stove (a wood burning stove that made home heating safer); and, of course, the lightning rod.

These will significantly simplify protection, because the lightning rods currently in use, invented by Benjamin Franklin, provide protection at a distance equal to their height. For example ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Benjamin Franklin, a towering figure in American ... an inventor of groundbreaking technologies like the lightning rod, and a philosopher who helped define the principles ...

Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance man ... thinker in the English colonies in North America; invent the lightning rod, bifocals, and swim fins; make a number of crucial scientific ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin ... the Franklin stove (a wood burning stove that made home heating safer); and, of course, the lightning rod.