Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever ... The creations and inventions of Franklin's adult life are legendary and far-flung. He published the oft ...

Benjamin Franklin did not invent electricity ... Some of his most important experimentation as an inventor related to ...

Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin ... life-saving inventions, and contributed as much as anyone to the foundation of the American Republic. But Franklin's life was full of ...

(Sample: “A leader has a vision.”) In part because Benjamin Franklin had such a multifarious career—printer, writer, humorist, postmaster, inventor, scientist, polemicist, diplomat—he is ...

Benjamin Franklin, offer a roadmap for us today. Franklin was more than just a statesman—he was a polymath, inventor, diplomat, and connector whose pragmatic idealism allowed him to bridge ...