In his day, Benjamin Franklin was Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Mark Zuckerberg, and Henry Ford, all rolled into one. Here’s a look at his most enduring innovations and inventions on January 17 ...

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706, making today his 305th birthday. Here is a list of things you may or may not have known sprang from this impossibly talented man’s mind.

Benjamin Franklin’s mind was never idle as he looked for ways to improve life in his times. Check out his legacy of inventions, discoveries and observations – a long list prepared for the ...

Benjamin Franklin was a leading US Founding Father and inventor. Discover who Benjamin Franklin was, his groundbreaking inventions of the lightning rod and bifocals, influential books, and key ...

Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin Gene Barretta, . . Holt, $16.95 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-8050-7917-3 ...

It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...

In honor of the 306th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, park rangers from Independence National Historical Park were demonstrating a musical instrument invented by Dr. Franklin.

If you are Gene Barretta, 45, of Wynnewood, you write and illustrate a book for children to honor the great American on his 300th birthday and to explain in child-friendly terms why this 18th-centu… ...