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American Founding Father and polymath Benjamin Franklin invented a variety of useful things: a new stove for heating, rudimentary swimming fins, a better urinary catheter, a glass musical instrument ...

Given his numerous accomplishments as a printer, scientist and statesman, it’s easy to overlook Benjamin Franklin’s record as a prolific inventor of his era. “During Benjamin Franklin’s lifetime, he ...

American Founding Father and polymath Benjamin Franklin invented a variety of useful things: a new stove for heating, rudimentary swimming fins, a better urinary catheter, a glass musical instrument ...

Franklin’s musical invention, the armonica, became a sensation in Europe. Franklin developed a musical instrument that he called the armonica (after the Italian word for harmony). To play the armonica ...

Benjamin Franklin is credited with inventing the lightning rod, and for some 270 years it has remained the main tool for protecting buildings from destructive and potentially deadly thunderbolts. But ...

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