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 ...

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 ...

Benjamin Franklin may be best known as the creator of bifocals and the lightning rod, but a group of University of Notre Dame researchers suggest he should also be known for his innovative ways of ...

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

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

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