Benjamin Franklin discovered a love for swimming during his childhood in Boston. He was also a keen inventor, and one of his first inventions was a pair of hand-paddles he used to propel himself ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...

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 ...