Introduction: Lightning after Franklin 1. A New Invention 2. The Introduction of the Lightning Rod in the Netherlands 3. Eighteenth-Century Physical Theories on Thunderstorms 4. Official Religion 5.

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

When Benjamin Franklin was 17 years old, he did that most American of activities: He ran away from home. More precisely, Franklin fled an apprenticeship in Boston and made his way to Philadelphia, the ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...