former editor of The Benjamin Franklin Papers at Yale University, and author of My Life With Benjamin Franklin; and Ormond Seavey, professor of English at the George Washington University ...

Bernard Cohen more than 80 years ago, in his critical edition of Franklin’s own long out-of-print “Experiments and ...

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: ...