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

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 ...

Christopher Leaman Benjamin Franklin was, in his own words ... The inventor of the Franklin wood-burning stove, the lightning rod, bifocal glasses, a chair that converted into a stepladder ...

He’s 73, with an animal on his head,” notes one observer when clapping eyes on Benjamin Franklin – and Benjamin Franklin’s hat – upon his arrival in Paris. How then was this unlikely figure, for all ...

Bensalem’s Growden Mansion was once owned by wealthy Joseph Galloway and Benjamin Franklin and son William were regular ...

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 ...