But did that event lead to the lightning rod? When Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, he left a small sum of money to the cities of Boston and Philadelphia with one condition: That they not spend it ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy ... of course, the lightning rod. Later, while in France, he pioneered the idea of daylight saving time ...

These will significantly simplify protection, because the lightning rods currently in use, invented by Benjamin Franklin, provide protection at a distance equal to their height. For example ...

Good money management is as American as apple pie, though our Founding Fathers might wonder how Americans have gotten so far off track with their ...

In part because Benjamin Franklin had such a multifarious career ... Franklin’s well-known practical inventions—the lightning rod, bifocals, the so-called Franklin stove—were not merely ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy ... of course, the lightning rod. Later, while in France, he pioneered the idea of daylight saving time ...