Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on this day in history, Jan. 17, 1706. He achieved fame in Philadelphia and won the ...

Founding Father Benjamin Franklin signed most of his letters “B. Franklin” or “Benj. Franklin.” But some of them, especially those written in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War, ...

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Lloyd Suh’s nimble period comedy about Benjamin Franklin examines a timeless struggle: the unmet expectations that divide ...

Getty Images The polymath and statesman Benjamin Franklin, depicted here conducting an experiment to prove lightning was electricity, befriended Lay and published his work As his biographer ...

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

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A technology pioneered by Benjamin Franklin is being revived to build more efficient electric motors, an effort in its nascent stage that has the potential to be massive. A handful of ...

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For decades, the Franklin Institute has largely focused on mounting splashy traveling shows tied to movies, Legos, or ...

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