Benjamin Franklin did not invent electricity, but he discovered how to harness its power for common use. Franklin's kite ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife ... the only person to witness his father’s successful demonstration that lightning is electricity. In the 1750s, the two of them traveled to London ...

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 ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy ... the man who risked life and limb to fly a kite in a lightning storm. (He was well insulated, it turns ...

Indeed, Benjamin Franklin got us halfway there with the invention of lightning rods, which attract and capture lightning and ...

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 ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced efforts Thursday to implement policies he says will strengthen the commonwealth’s ...