For elementary grades, Ben Franklin tells the story of how Francis Scott Key was held overnight by the British during the bombing of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.
In 1752, with his famous storm-flying kite, Ben Franklin discovered lightning was electricity. In 1879, Thomas Edison perfected the electric light bulb. In the twenty-first century, we take our electricity for granted until we don't have any. A few weeks
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing." Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts, and he has not been forgotten. He was a prolif
In 1791, a year after Franklin's death, his autobiography "Memoires De La Vie Privee" was published in Paris.
It is not well known that Franklin spent twenty years in London, residing at 36 Craven Street.
Created by Professor Leo Lemay of the University of Delaware as background research for a Franklin biography, this year-by-year time line of Franklin's life would fill seven volumes if published on paper.
"The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths.
There is so much excellent material in this Franklin Institute site, I could devote an entire column to it.
