Ben Franklin — whose electric experiments are most frequently associated with flying a kite in a thunderstorm — built and tested one such high-voltage motor. It wasn’t very powerful ...

Michael Douglas fits the bill as Ben Franklin in “Franklin,” an eight ... He quickly gains celebrity status (his likeness on coins, oil paintings of his visage, the public copying the fur ...

Ben Franklin's "ditto" suit helped convey American values to the French National Museum of American History, S.I./Massachusetts Historical Society Franklin understood how sensitive his assignment ...

But he was drawn to the subject, thanks in part to the master painter’s similarities to Benjamin Franklin ... because his paintings capture immense movement and don’t feel “frozen ...