Given his numerous accomplishments as a printer, scientist and statesman, it’s easy to overlook Benjamin Franklin’s record as a prolific inventor of his era. “During Benjamin Franklin’s lifetime, he ...

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American Founding Father and polymath Benjamin Franklin invented a variety of useful things: a new stove for heating, rudimentary swimming fins, a better urinary catheter, a glass musical instrument ...

Franklin’s musical invention, the armonica, became a sensation in Europe. Franklin developed a musical instrument that he called the armonica (after the Italian word for harmony). To play the armonica ...

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