It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...

1935, one of the group’s main locations from 1880 to 1935. The Library Company of Philadelphia Founding father Benjamin Franklin knew better than most the benefits of self-education.

Despite the crowd asserting it in Franklin, Benjamin Franklin neither invented nor discovered electricity. Per Mr. Electric, ...

That trans-Atlantic journey effectively marked Franklin’s debut on the world stage, the moment this American inventor-publisher-aphorist-leader—but not yet the wise old cosmopolitan founding ...

The creations and inventions of Franklin's adult life are legendary and far-flung. He published the oft-quoted Poor Richard's Almanack, established Philadelphia's first public library ...

Let me explain why with a harmless example. Many people believe that Benjamin Franklin invented Daylight Saving Time. If someone posts something to Facebook (or to your company’s internal ...

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