Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin ... The list of his inventions included: bifocals; the medical catheter; the odometer; the Franklin stove (a wood burning ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin ... The list of his inventions included: bifocals; the medical catheter; the odometer; the Franklin stove (a wood burning ...

In part because Benjamin Franklin had such ... that Franklin’s well-known practical inventions—the lightning rod, bifocals, the so-called Franklin stove—were not merely the products of ...