Benjamin Franklin has been credited as being the inventor of bifocals, the lightning rod, the odometer, the $100 bill, and the Franklin Stove. But hardly anyone knows that the kite-flying chubster also invented the Franklin Grill, which hundreds of years later would become the predecessor of the extremely popular George Foreman Grill.
The Amazingly Gifted Benjamin Franklin
Submitted by Abel Rodriguez
Thursday, 27 February 2014