Long before there were Benjamins in circulation, the founding father was all about experimenting with printing techniques as he worked on securing colonial printed currency. By Veronique Greenwood ...

Benjamin Franklin understood something fundamental about money that still shapes modern economies: Money only works when people believe it is real. In the early 18th century, the British colonies ...

A papermaker in Massachusetts named Zenas Marshall Crane is traditionally credited with being the first to include tiny fibers in the paper pulp used to print currency in 1844. But scientists at the ...