Benjamin Franklin, the colonial inventor, publisher, diplomat and U.S. founding father, was so busy that it's easy to lose track of his accomplishments. Add to those his early work in printing colonial paper currency, which was plagued by a constant counterfeiting problem. Franklin was an early innovator of printing techniques that used colored threads, watermarks and imprints of natural objects such as leaves to make it far harder for others to create knockoffs of the paper bills he printed. A team at Notre Dame University used advanced scanning techniques to reveal some of Franklin's methods — and one more reason his face appears on the $100 bill.
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