S8E22 Podcast: The First Climate Scientist? Benjamin Franklin and the Franklin Stove

from Off the Deaton Path · host Stan Deaton

Stan’s guest this week is Harvard historian Joyce Chaplin, who discusses her new book, The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2025). Was Ben Franklin the first climate scientist? The Franklin stove became one of the Revolutionary era’s most iconic consumer products, spreading from Pennsylvania to Italy, and beyond. It was also ...Continue Reading »

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