Key figures such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine are featured, showcasing their contributions through pamphlets and essays that fueled the desire for independence. The film also touches on ...

Ben Franklin — whose electric experiments are most frequently associated with flying a kite in a thunderstorm — built and tested one such high-voltage motor. It wasn’t very powerful ...

He wrote influential essays, coined words and phrases still ... or do things worth the writing." Benjamin Franklin did both. Sign up to get updates about the film and future projects from Ken ...

Ben Franklin by way of Michael Douglas ... In the 1781 satirical essay "Fart Proudly," Franklin proclaimed the joys of "discharging freely the wind from (the) Bowels" seven times a day.