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

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial ... The inventor of the Franklin wood-burning stove, the lightning rod, bifocal glasses, a chair that converted into a ...

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Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin ... the Franklin stove (a wood burning stove that made home heating safer); and, of course, the lightning rod. Later, while in France ...