Ben Franklin — whose electric experiments are most frequently associated with flying a kite in a thunderstorm — built and tested one such high-voltage motor. It wasn’t very powerful ...

A technology pioneered by Benjamin Franklin is being revived to build more efficient electric motors, an effort in its ...

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

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania recently approved $972,500 in investments to support eight ...

[via MSN/WSJ] While the first real application of an electric motor was Ben Franklin’s electrostatically-driven turkey rotisserie, electromagnetic type motors largely supplanted the technology ...