American Founding Father and polymath Benjamin Franklin invented a variety of useful things: a new stove for heating, rudimentary swimming fins, a better urinary catheter, a glass musical instrument ...

The creation of DST is usually credited to George Vernon Hudson, but 100 years earlier, Benjamin Franklin pondered a similar question ...

Aside from being of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Franklin was a notable inventor and an early advocate for paper money.

In his day, Benjamin Franklin was Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Mark Zuckerberg, and Henry Ford, all rolled into one. Here’s a look at his most enduring innovations and inventions on January 17 ...

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706, making today his 305th birthday. Here is a list of things you may or may not have known sprang from this impossibly talented man’s mind. While it ...

Benjamin Franklin’s mind was never idle as he looked for ways to improve life in his times. Check out his legacy of inventions, discoveries and observations – a long list prepared for t… ...

Among the wide-ranging inventions, discoveries and designs included are bifocals, electricity, swimming fins, the benefits of Vitamin C, the Pennsylvania Fireplace (later renamed the Franklin ...

Lifelogging has been around since at least Benjamin Franklin, but digital technology transformed the practice, allowing obsessive types to record, store and visualize every detail of their lives ...

The polymathic American polemicist, inventor and diplomat was also a scientist whose work brought him esteem across the Atlantic.

Ken Burns' latest PBS offering, 'Benjamin Franklin,' is a four-hour look at the wide-ranging life of the Founding Father, inventor, diplomat and writer.