An Unintended American Revolution,” Harvard professor Joyce E. Chaplin reveals how this relatively modest invention ...
The colonists were too busy establishing settlements to concern themselves much with comfort, as in … staying warm. So, up ...
The winter of 1740-1741 was miserable. Boston Harbor froze over. So did the Venice Lagoon. Crops died and famine reigned. Up ...
The list of his inventions included: bifocals; the medical catheter; the odometer; the Franklin stove (a wood burning stove that made home heating safer); and, of course, the lightning rod.