Given his numerous accomplishments as a printer, scientist and statesman, it’s easy to overlook Benjamin Franklin’s record as a prolific inventor of his era. “During Benjamin Franklin’s lifetime, he ...

Joyce Chaplin's new book "The Franklin Stove" is out now. (Book cover courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux; author photo courtesy Saffron Sener) The winter of 1740-41 was exceptionally cold and Benjamin ...

To most Americans, Benjamin Franklin is an institution. But to Ken Burns, the Founding Father was as modern as it gets — just 200 years too soon. Franklin is the subject of the Oscar-nominated ...

Benjamin Franklin is long-gone, but as a world-famous inventor, some of his theories are still at work in the palm of your hand. He greatly added to the world’s understanding of electricity in his own ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to fly a ...

Benjamin Franklin's poignant quote, "Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late," reflects on the human ...

(From left to right) Thomas Jay Ryan (playing Benjamin Franklin) and Noah Keyishian (playing William Franklin) in “Franklinland” Credit: Jeremy Daniel When you think of famous scientists of the early ...

“Posterity will never forgive us,” lamented John Adams in the musical 1776 after the Second Continental Congress compromised to omit an anti-slavery passage from the Declaration of Independence. “What ...