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

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

The Boston-born Founding Father is best known for his work in the United States, but the roots of his legacy were planted in ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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

The Benjamin Franklin we meet in Apple TV+'s limited series Franklin may be in his golden years, but he still has a few tricks up his sleeve. Oscar winner Michael Douglas stars as the famed Founding ...

Benjamin Franklin's quote highlights the urgency of taking action before opportunities vanish. He teaches that while planning ...

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 ...

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