Benjamin Franklin invented the glass harmonica, inspired by the parlor trick of playing music on water-filled glasses. The ...

Discover the glass armonica, Benjamin Franklin's remarkable musical invention, and the musician keeping its haunting sound ...

Benjamin Franklin's quote warns that small, repeated expenses can cause serious financial strain over time. It underlines how ...

Benjamin Franklin's entrepreneurial spirit fueled American innovation during his time and can still be felt today. In The Society for Useful Knowledge author Jonathan Lyons talk about how Franklin ...

A Palm Beach Gardens man is displaying one of the largest Benjamin Franklin artifact collections to celebrate America's 250th birthday.

I know exactly what I’d do with it: buy the original copy of “The Autobiography.” Because it turns out that Benjamin Franklin ...

The Who’s Roger Daltrey joins via ‘remote cameo’ for this shows alt look at Franklin’s complicated American story.

But Franklin’s ingenuity showed most clearly in his invention, or rather recurrent reinvention, of himself. In the course of his life, Franklin devised dozens of authorial personas in print, which ...

“The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” appeared posthumously in 1791 and has “brought affliction to millions of boys since, whose fathers had read Franklin’s pernicious biography.” Or so said Mark ...

Funko is celebrating America 250 with a brand-new line of historic figures.