Franklin Leonard Pope (2 December 1840 – 13 October 1895) was an American engineer, explorer, and inventor.

He was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in December 1840, the son of Ebenezer Pope and Electra Wainwright.

[2] After developing a system which tracked and printed the prices of gold and stocks, Pope partnered with Thomas Edison in 1869, forming the company Pope, Edison & Company Electrical Engineers, and invented a one-wire telegraph in 1870.

Pope married Sarah Amelia Dickinson on 6 August 1873; they had four children, two daughters and two sons.

Pope died at the age of 54 as a result of an accidental electrocution by 3000 volts in the basement of his home at 518 Main Street in Great Barrington.