Benjamin Franklin experimented with electricity on fowl. Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis, courtesy of The Library of Congress In 1751 Benjamin Franklin planned an electrical ...

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PHILADELPHIA -- Legend has it that 250 years ago this month, Benjamin Franklin sailed a kite and a key into a stormy Philadelphia sky and made a shocking discovery: Lightning was a form of electricity ...

Chronic curiosity led Benjamin Franklin to fly a kite into a thunderstorm-he got a mild shock and proof that lightning is electrical. A year later, a Russian professor tried the experiment and was ...

(From left to right) Thomas Jay Ryan (playing Benjamin Franklin) and Noah Keyishian (playing William Franklin) in “Franklinland” Credit: Jeremy Daniel When you think of famous scientists of the early ...

This week's question was asked by Trinity Olivia Jones, grade 3 at Miller Elementary School. Teacher: Amy Stoffregen. QUESTION: Why did Benjamin Franklin fly a kite in the rain when there was thunder ...