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 ...

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 ...

In part because Benjamin ... later. Franklin’s work on the fundamental properties of electricity went far beyond the famous demonstration of the electric nature of lightning in his kite-flying ...