When Benjamin Franklin’s brother John experienced painful bladder stones, the resourceful inventor set to work on finding a solution for him. Franklin designed the flexible urinary catheter in ...

Benjamin Franklin was, in his own words, “the youngest son of the youngest son for five Generations back.” Born to a Boston candlemaker who had emigrated from Ecton, England, Franklin became ...

Benjamin Franklin is needed in 2021 ... He invented the lightning rod, bifocal glasses, a flexible catheter, swimming fins and the Franklin stove. He was a prodigious writer and published Poor ...

In his day, Benjamin Franklin was Steve Jobs ... Invention or innovation: The flexible catheter (1752). When Franklin’s brother has having problems urinating due to kidney stones, the inventor ...

Benjamin Franklin invented a lot of things—bifocals, electricity, lightning rods, stoves, swimming fins, the odometer and a flexible urinary catheter. Also, the glass harp (or, if you prefer ...

the glass armonica and flexible urinary catheters. But back to the books. Books donated by Benjamin Franklin, on display in the Franklin Public Library. (Sharon Brody/WBUR) Franklin Public Library ...

The flexible urinary catheter. 7. Benjamin Franklin was partially responsible for the establishment of America’s first hospital. Established in 1751 by Franklin and Dr. Thomas Bond, Pennsylvania ...

Benjamin Franklin Day is observed in some places ... including one from Nikola Tesla. Flexible Catheter (1752) Franklin's brother had kidney stones, which made it difficult for him to urinate.

Franklin was curious about the world and ... ways to make clocks and improve bifocal lenses. He even created a flexible steel catheter for his brother. - [Narrator:] And he tried to find a cure ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would ... the medical catheter; the odometer; the Franklin stove (a wood burning stove that made home heating safer); and ...

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 ...