you’re intentionally trying to catch a lightning bolt. The guys from [kreosan] replicated the famous experiment, with which Benjamin Franklin once set out to prove the electrical nature of ...

Benjamin Franklin did not invent electricity, but he discovered how to harness its power for common use. Franklin's kite ...

Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius by Joyce Chaplin Stealing God’s Thunder: Benjamin Franklin’s Lightning Rod and the Invention of America by Philip Dray ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin ... the Franklin stove (a wood burning stove that made home heating safer); and, of course, the lightning rod. Later, while in France ...