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

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife ... William assisted in the kite experiment, making him the only person to witness his father’s successful demonstration that lightning is electricity.

John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to fly a kite in a ...

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 ...

Planet Power tells the story of electricity, from the first spark created by man's hand to the largest power plants, the age of miracles to that of industry, from Benjamin Franklin's kite to Solar ...

In part because Benjamin Franklin had such a multifarious career ... demonstration of the electric nature of lightning in his kite-flying experiment. For his work on electricity, he was awarded ...