Benjamin Franklin was a leading US Founding Father and inventor. Discover who Benjamin Franklin was, his groundbreaking inventions of the lightning rod and bifocals, influential books, and key ...

Each Wednesday we are hand picking two properties to showcase for those looking to relocate in the county or find a new home ...

But before they went, they were all fed. Stew was the only practical meal to make for so many people and only the surface of one small wood stove on which to do the cooking. The Snyders have a small ...

When Coal First Arrived, Americans Said ‘No Thanks’ Back in the 19th century, coal was the nation’s newfangled fuel source—and it faced the same resistance as wind and solar today ...

The Franklin Stove, by Joyce E. Chaplin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). In the mid-eighteenth century, during a period of cooling known as the Little Ice Age, Benjamin Franklin began designing a ...

In The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $32), the historian Joyce E. Chaplin argues that Benjamin Franklin’s most ingenious invention—a fireplace designed ...

In her new book, “The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution,” Harvard professor Joyce E. Chaplin reveals how this relatively modest invention prefigures the ascent of the United ...

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Joyce E. Chaplin is the James Duncan Phillips professor of early American history at Harvard University and author of the forthcoming “The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution ...

The Franklin Fire Company said the special services task force responded to a fire at A J Stoves and Pellets in the 8600 block of Molly Pitcher Highway/Route 11 in Antrim Township around 10 a.m.

Around 7:45 a.m. on Jan. 6, Mims called 911 and told dispatchers her young son, 3-year-old Emmanuel Mims, had pulled hot water off of the stove and onto himself. The boy was not responsive when ...