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 ...

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 ...

Plenty of old Maine homes and camps already host an old-fashioned woodstove — a no-frills potbelly, an ornate parlor stove, or a classic Franklin stove (named for the Founding Father who designed it).

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 ...

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 ...

The $100 bill has featured Benjamin Franklin, ... Known for his kite experiment, he proved lightning was electricity and invented the lightning rod, bifocals and Franklin stove.

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FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WKRN) – A Franklin home was heavily damaged by a fire that started in the kitchen Monday night. The Franklin Fire Department said crews were dispatched to a two-story home on ...

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