Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky, c. 1816, by Benjamin West. Heavenly cherubs most certainly did not assist with Franklin's kite experiment. Chalk it up to artistic license.

In elementary school, most of us were taught that Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity by tying a key to a kite and standing in a thunderstorm. Though Franklin is believed to have completed ...

Franklin studied electricity and proved lightning’s electrical nature with a key and kite. Franklin made groundbreaking discoveries in his study of electricity. He wrote up his observations and ...

Did Franklin really discover electricity by getting zapped by a lightning bolt during this experiment? Though most people know Benjamin Franklin — an American founding father, legendary ...

Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in a storm and advanced humanity's understanding of electricity on this day in history, June 10, 1752. Franklin was also a U.S. statesman and founding father.

Benjamin Franklin first shocked himself in 1746, while conducting experiments on electricity with found objects from around his house. Six years later and exactly 261 years ago today, the founding ...

Keywords electricity, history, Thales, Franklin, Galvani, Volta, Faraday, atomic theory, ... followed by Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment that linked lightning to electrical charge.

Let’s talk about the kite and the lightning storm. In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated ...

Benjamin Franklin wasn’t just America’s preeminent statesman and inventor—he was also one of its first tornado chasers. An excerpt from Lee Sandlin’s Storm Kings. Benjamin Franklin was a ...

The lyrics, sung from Franklin’s rather cheeky perspective at age 76 (which places the song around the year 1782), touch on some of Franklin’s most famous scientific credits (electricity) and ...