Ben Franklin’s famous experiment with the kite and key gave him a better understanding of the nature of electricity. But did that event lead to the lightning rod? When Benjamin Franklin died in ...

It highlights significant discoveries, starting with Thales of Miletus's observation of static electricity from amber, followed by Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment that linked lightning to ...

Benjamin Franklin, famous for his kite experiment, demonstrated that lightning was indeed electrical. Electricity has also ...

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 ...