Benjamin Franklin did not invent electricity, but he discovered how to harness its power for common use. Franklin's kite ...

A painting of Franklin’s return to Philadelphia from Europe in 1785 shows him flanked by his son-in-law (in red), his daughter and Benjamin Bache (in blue), the grandson he’d taken to France ...

Ben Franklin — whose electric experiments are most frequently associated with flying a kite in a thunderstorm ... such as yours truly. In 1748, Benjamin Franklin invented what he called ...

Ben Franklin’s famous experiment with the kite and key gave him a better understanding of the nature of electricity. But did that event lead to the lightning rod? When Benjamin Franklin died in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Watch out, Andy Daly: Your one-episode role on The Office may soon no longer be the definitive pop culture portrayal of Benjamin Franklin. That’s because Apple has just announced that Michael ...