Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin ... The list of his inventions included: bifocals; the medical catheter; the odometer; the Franklin stove (a wood burning ...
In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...
The rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, the influence of India on the world, and the origins of the alt-right are among the ...
In part because Benjamin Franklin had such ... that Franklin’s well-known practical inventions—the lightning rod, bifocals, the so-called Franklin stove—were not merely the products of ...
Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin ... The list of his inventions included: bifocals; the medical catheter; the odometer; the Franklin stove (a wood burning ...
The polymathic American polemicist, inventor and diplomat was also a scientist whose work brought him esteem across the ...