Franklin’s first published essays were printed under a pseudonym—Silence Dogood. Franklin, who had only two years of formal education, largely taught himself through reading and on the job. At age 12, ...

”The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer, lies here, food for worms! Yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will, as he believed, appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected ...

Benjamin Franklin was a printer, politician, diplomat, and journalist. But despite only two years of schooling, he was also an ingenious scientist. In this conversation from 2010, Nobel Prize-winning ...

Benjamin Franklin may be best known as the creator of bifocals and the lightning rod, but a group of University of Notre Dame researchers suggest he should also be known for his innovative ways of ...

THE PAPERS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, VOL. I (400 pp.)—Edited by Leonard W. Labaree—Yale University ($7.50). Benjamin Franklin, printer, philosopher, scientist, author, patriot and first citizen of ...

After success as a Philadelphia printer, Benjamin Franklin earns worldwide fame in science, before a turn to politics divides his family. Benjamin Franklin helps craft the Declaration of Independence, ...