These aren't your Ben Franklin bifocals. A Virginia-based company is introducing prescription eyeglasses that can be refocused electronically, on the fly.

NEW ORLEANS — Some students at Benjamin Franklin Elementary can now see things a bit more clearly.On Thursday morning, 150 students received free eye exams and glasses as part of a collaboration ...

LEILA FADEL, HOST: We know Benjamin Franklin as a founder, a diplomat and an inventor. MICHAEL MEYER: He invented bifocals. He invented the lightning rod.

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 ...

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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, ...

Benjamin Franklin was a passionate writer, especially in the cause of the democracy he helped found, but even such a prolific man of letters may have had second thoughts about posting too-hasty ...

If there is one person who is going to find out if a Ben Franklin impersonator is lying it’s going to be Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson.) Wilson also really loved improvising in The Office so it ...

Of the many inventions (bifocals, odometer), accomplishments (US postal system, Constitution) and experiments (that kite in a lightning storm) credited to Benjamin Franklin, none of his ...

Ben even had a remedy for the person who wakes up in the middle of the night. Get out of bed, he suggested, and turn the pillow. Then take off your nightgown and shake it about 20 times.

Ben Franklin Elementary kids get free eye exams and glasses ...