Who is on the 100-dollar bill? It's Benjamin Franklin, not a president. Learn why he's on the $100 bill and the history of its design.

The Philadelphian came to see that the ideals he championed — liberty, self-determination, human dignity — could not coexist ...

Benjamin Franklin experimented with electricity on fowl. Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis, courtesy of The Library of Congress In 1751 Benjamin Franklin planned an electrical ...

With the exception of John Quincy Adams, no other son of a Founder rose to his father’s stature. The unluckiest of all may ...

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Introduction: Lightning after Franklin 1. A New Invention 2. The Introduction of the Lightning Rod in the Netherlands 3. Eighteenth-Century Physical Theories on Thunderstorms 4. Official Religion 5.