Benjamin Franklin’s famous quote, “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success ...

Today, we celebrate the towering life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin—printer and philosopher, inventor and diplomat, public ...

As a letter to Franklin from George Washington goes up for auction, the author and inventor also figures in New York Lottery commercials.

Ben Franklin's invention of the lightning rod and his revelation of the mysterious workings of lightning and thunder made him one of the foremost scientists of his day. As Dray, who won the Robert F.

Ever prescient, 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 ...