Benjamin Franklin made plenty of his own observations, but what sets him apart from the scientists of antiquity is his ...

A bust of Benjamin Franklin, crafted by Flemish artist John Michael Rysbrack and believed to be the earliest sculpture of the ...

Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped ...

Galvani’s contemporaries—including Benjamin Franklin, whose work helped prove the existence of atmospheric electricity—had made great strides in understanding the nature of electricity and how to ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever ... Around 1748 Franklin began his electricity research, establishing electricity and meteorology as viable ...