Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words ...

Siblings Benjamin Franklin Pepper Jr. and Holly White still remember when the portrait of their great-great-great-great-great ...

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 ...

The Wall Street and Basic Instinct star has made a hard pivot into prestige historical drama by playing no less a nobleman ...

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A crucial contribution. Rosalind Franklin made a crucial contribution to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, but some would say she got a raw deal. Biographer Brenda Maddox called ...

Jeff Benjamin is an award-winning music and travel journalist, editor, curator and host in New York City covering international pop music. Writing professionally since 2011, the Senior Contributor ...

Franklin DynaTech Fund earns an Average Process Pillar rating. The main contributor to the rating is the stability of the management team. Specifically, the fund has not seen a manager change in ...