And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: June 11th, 1742, 275 years ago today … hot times for one of our Founding Fathers. For that was the day Benjamin Franklin is widely believed to have ...

Plenty of old Maine homes and camps already host an old-fashioned woodstove — a no-frills potbelly, an ornate parlor stove, or a classic Franklin stove (named for the Founding Father who designed it).

Historian Chaplin (The First Scientific American) provides an enthralling exploration of Benjamin Franklin’s little-remembered but most commercially successful invention. The Franklin stove heated ...

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, Franklin ...

The Maverick’s Museum, by Blake Gopnik (Ecco). Albert C. Barnes was born into poverty in 1872, in Philadelphia, and went on to make a fortune as the inventor of a topical antiseptic and to amass a ...

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 was ...