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 ...

Here’s a quick look at the amazing life of founding father Benjamin Franklin ... In 1733, Franklin began publishing his famous Poor Richard’s Almanac. It contained both original and borrowed ...

John Adams said "Franklin had a great genius, original, sagacious and inventive, capable of discoveries in science no less than of improvements in the fine arts and mechanical arts." Ben had only ...

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 ...