From Benjamin Franklin to the present, authors have focused on the evolving workplace, and what needs to be done to make it ...

Introduction; Franklin's Notes; Twyford, AT THE BISHOP OF ST ASAPH'S, 1771.; CONTINUATION OF THE ACCOUNT OF MY LIFE, BEGUN AT PASSY, NEAR PARIS, 1784 https://siris ...

Let’s talk about the kite and the lightning storm. In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that ...

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 ...

“Science, rather than being a sideline, is the through line that integrates [Benjamin] Franklin’s diverse interests,” according to this electrifying portrait of the founding father’s scientific ...

Benjamin Franklin experimented with electricity on fowl. Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis, courtesy of The Library of Congress In 1751 Benjamin Franklin planned an electrical ...