Like his father, William had his own son out of wedlock, William Temple Franklin. Unlike Benjamin, William did not raise Temple. Unaware of his paternity, Temple grew up with a foster family in ...

In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...

Staring out from the $100 bill, looking more like a wise old uncle than Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin seems an easy guy to like. And if anyone belongs on U.S. currency it's this colonial polymath ...