Lit by Lightning" describes Thorpe's football breakthrough with the Carlisle Indian School against Penn in 1907.

Benjamin Franklin was nothing short of an American sage. He was born on Milk Street in Boston in 1706 and ran away from home ...

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 ...

The Franklin Public Library displays a re-creation of the letter sent by Benjamin Franklin that set in motion the gift that established the first free lending library in America.

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Mr. Munson emphasizes that Franklin’s well-known practical inventions—the lightning rod, bifocals, the so-called Franklin stove—were not merely the products of a playful or quirky tinkerer.

He was likewise a prolific inventor, and Munson chronicles his work on printing techniques, lightning rods and efficient stoves (SN: 7/17/23). The biography largely glosses over Franklin’s ...

The American Benjamin Franklin is often credited with inventing the lightning rod, among other things brought to light by his prodigious ingenuity. However, there were other scientists working on it ...

The possible pre-Franklin origins of the lightning rod are vigorously debated. Around 1730, a Russian industrialist named Akinfiy Demidov built the 189-foot-tall Leaning Tower of Nevyansk in ...

Ahead of Benjamin Franklin Day this Wednesday, here are 10 inspiring quotes by him as we mark his birth anniversary: "Well done is better than well said." "An investment in knowledge pays the best ...