Benjamin Franklin and his future wife ... William assisted in the kite experiment, making him the only person to witness his father’s successful demonstration that lightning is electricity.

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 kite in a ...

Power lines are a regular part of our day-to-day lives now as they carry electricity through the world, but when were they first invented?

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of novels, almanacs, soap wrappers, and everything in between Looming large on ...

BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA —It's a place rumored to be where Benjamin Franklin flew a kite. The Growden Mansion —also known as the ...