The instrument had a spinning rod with glass bowls of different sizes, each tuned to a different note. Musicians used a foot ...

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of novels, almanacs, soap wrappers, and everything in between Looming large on ...

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 (in blue), the grandson he’d taken to France ...

I had the pleasure of talking to him and discussing the image A New, New York, Dawn – a Dutch angle shot, which was inspired by filmmaker Orson Welles, and proves that Benjamin Franklin was wrong ...

Benjamin Franklin is a crucial figure in the history of the founding of the United States. His accomplishments are so well known that he’s often referred to as the “only U.S. President to have ...

THE Harvard University Press and Mr. Cohen have performed a very useful service in making Franklin's “Experiments and Observations” accessible in this convenient form. Mr. Cohen has written an ...

Franklin advanced a scientific – not supernatural – understanding of astronomical events such as eclipses. His satirical character 'Poor Richard' mocked those who bought into astrological ...

Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words ...

"The Return of Benjamin Lay," is a timely reminder of Lay's unapologetic radicalism against authoritarian forces.

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

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. And in the New England pantheon no two so cordially disliked each other, unless you ...

The United States Postal Service is celebrating its 250th anniversary with special stamps featuring a familiar face.