Today, Think Tank asks about Benjamin ... home and abroad. Franklin was born in Boston in 1706. He was legally indentured to work in his brother’s print shop when he was 12 years old, and ...

Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance man. After getting his start in the printing business, he went on to establish himself as a leading writer and political thinker in the English colonies in ...

Let’s talk about the kite and the lightning storm. In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated ...

A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist,” Richard Munson summarizes the many Franklins that have been offered up to the reading public over the years. Franklin’s first biographer ...