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

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial ... and signed the Declaration of Independence. The inventor of the Franklin wood-burning stove, the lightning rod, bifocal ...

Later, the invention of the telegraph meant that ... Walls says some think Benjamin Franklin had the first idea of moving time. "It's probably, it's where he was maybe playing with people, the ...

Hershey established his famous chocolate company in ... This Philadelphia museum honors Benjamin Franklin's work as a scientist and inventor through interactive exhibits, both permanent and ...

Letters: That picture of the Who’s Who of American super-wealth in the first row at President Trump’s inauguration haunts me. It’s the visual definition of oligarchy.

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 ... Deborah’s famous temper might be traced ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Stephanie Kwolek is credited for developing Kevlar, a fibre that is five times stronger than steel, while working at the DuPont Company in 1965. The modern ironing board was invented by Sarah ...

Since 1754, when Benjamin Franklin published a political cartoon imploring the American colonies to “JOIN, or DIE,” the rattlesnake has been “a classic American character in a classic ...

Franklin Jonas knows he’s a nepo brother — and he’s grateful for the opportunity to strike out on his own as a musician. He continued: “I’m just really grateful and I try and do my best ...