Exactly 300 years ago, in 1721, Benjamin Franklin and his fellow American colonists faced a deadly smallpox outbreak. Their varying responses constitute an eerily prescient object lesson for today's ...
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 ...
The Franklin Institute Awards Program has honored some of the most iconic names in science, including Albert Einstein, Frank Lloyd Wright and Stephen Hawking. This April, Salk Institute Professor ...
During his career, Benjamin Franklin printed nearly 2,500,000 money notes for the American Colonies using what the researchers have identified as highly original techniques. Benjamin Franklin may be ...
Painting of Benjamin Franklin at the printing press. Cir cca - 1914. Source - Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g07217. public domain Painting of Benjamin ...
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