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 ...

Edited from his Manuscript, with Notes and an Introduction, by JOHN BIGELOW. Philadelphia; J. B. Lippincott & Co. IN his Introduction Mr. Bigelow tells us the very interesting story of the chance ...

Based on volumes 1-15 of The papers of Benjamin Franklin ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

In late 1772 Benjamin Franklin received a startling package from an unknown sender. It was a collection of letters from several high-ranking colonial officials in Massachusetts written to Thomas ...

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