In 1743, Benjamin Franklin's observation of a storm that contradicted surface wind direction led to the realization that ...
Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to fly a ...
The American postal system, under the leadership of Benjamin Franklin, was created on this date, July 26, 1775. The Second Continental Congress met in the immediate aftermath of the Battles of ...
Benjamin Franklin wasn’t just America’s preeminent statesman and inventor—he was also one of its first tornado chasers. An excerpt from Lee Sandlin’s Storm Kings. Benjamin Franklin was a universally ...
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