Benjamin Franklin may have helped give birth to a new nation, but the glass armonica was the Founding Father's "most cherished creation," according to English professor Corey Mead. Best known as a ...

Difficult as it is to believe today, Ben Franklin — old, pudgy, balding, glasses-wearing Ben — was a babe magnet well into old age. As ambassador to France, ...

Morgan's publisher, Yale University Press, has given "Benjamin Franklin" a first printing of 35,000. ... the benevolent old man looking out over his half-glasses," Morgan says in an interview.

Andy Daly, “Benjamin Franklin” on The Office, ... Looking at the logo, my first thought is that it takes more than a gray wig and a pair of rectangular glasses to make Ben Franklin.

Benjamin Franklin once passed a band playing more than 50 wine glasses on the street and was instantly mesmerized by the sound, glass musician Vera Meyer said. So he built his own instrument with ...