Joyce Chaplin's new book "The Franklin Stove" is out now. (Book cover courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux; author photo courtesy Saffron Sener) The winter of 1740-41 was exceptionally cold and ...
The colonists were too busy establishing settlements to concern themselves much with comfort, as in … staying warm. So, up through the 1800s, they built their ...
If you somehow have Monday off, Lamplighter Brewing Cx is hosting a Buffy the Vampire Slayer anniversary marathon, 1-7pm. Tuesday, 3/11 🌊 Emily Norton of the Charles River Watershed Association ...
The list of his inventions included: bifocals; the medical catheter; the odometer; the Franklin stove (a wood burning stove that made home heating safer); and, of course, the lightning rod.