# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Free Hybrid Lecture Event: Benjamin Franklin, Frankenstein, and the Age of Revolution
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 05 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 05 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Ask anyone why Benjamin Franklin is famous and they will likely mention his role in the American Revolution. Yet Franklin’s celebrity began with his science. Decades before independence, Immanuel Kant hailed him as “the Modern Prometheus,” a bold defier of nature whose scientific experiments made him an international star and helped launch his political career. 

In this lecture, Joyce E. Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Harvard, and author of The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025), traces Franklin’s scientific pursuits, showing the central role of science in Franklin’s life—and in the revolutionary era more broadly. This lecture is presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence.

She will also discuss how Franklin’s reputation lived on in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), a powerful meditation on the rewards and risks of scientific ambition.

Free admission. Free parking is available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage starting at 5:00 pm.Advance registration is recommended: https://tinyurl.com/FranklinFrankensteinRev
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cambridge/free-hybrid-lecture-event-benjamin-franklin-frankenstein-and-the-age-of-revolution/200029675527721
- **Event Categories**: health-wellness, art, literary-art, meditation
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 18

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://tinyurl.com/FranklinFrankensteinRev?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=cambridge-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Cambridge
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
- **lat**: 42.37819
- **long**: -71.11624
- **full address**: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (https://allevents.in/org/harvard-collection-of-historical-scientific-instruments/13675005)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 05 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** health-wellness, art, literary-art, meditation
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Free Hybrid Lecture Event: Benjamin Franklin, Frankenstein, and the Age of Revolution ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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