Joyce Chaplin's new book "The Franklin Stove" is out now ... The winter of 1740-41 was exceptionally cold and Benjamin Franklin, then a humble Philadelphia printer, wasn’t about to take ...

It was during this terrible winter that Benjamin Franklin sought to devise a fix: his famous stove. He and his contemporaries disagreed over whether they could mitigate the cold weather — that i ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy ... the odometer; the Franklin stove (a wood burning stove that made home heating safer); and, of course ...

First, you compliment him for inventing the Franklin stove, which now keeps many New Englanders warmer in the winter. Listen in. “Ben, I loved the hollow baffle and inverted siphon innovations ...

Ben Franklin's accomplishments are so extensive ... from a urinary catheter to the Franklin stove. And there were those little experiments with kites. He was a diplomat in England before the ...

the lightning rod and the Franklin stove, among other devices. Close-up of a $100 bill featuring the face of Benjamin Franklin. Researchers have uncovered previously unknown money-printing ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy ... the odometer; the Franklin stove (a wood burning stove that made home heating safer); and, of course ...