A technology pioneered by Benjamin Franklin is being revived to build more efficient electric motors, an effort in its ...

Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped ...

Benjamin Franklin was famously fascinated by electricity. He performed a number ... the resourceful inventor set to work on finding a solution for him. Franklin designed the flexible urinary ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever ... Around 1748 Franklin began his electricity research, establishing electricity and meteorology as viable ...

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin ... bristled at Franklin’s supposed powers. All Europe seemed to believe he and his “electric wand ...