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 ...

Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius by Joyce Chaplin Stealing God’s Thunder: Benjamin Franklin’s Lightning Rod and the Invention of America by Philip Dray ...

Now, thanks to years of dogged fundraising on both sides of the Atlantic, Benjamin Franklin's only surviving ... research into electricity and lightning, Franklin had access to London’s lively ...

In the mid-18th century, Benjamin Franklin helped elucidate the nature of lightning and endorsed the protective value of ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin ... the Franklin stove (a wood burning stove that made home heating safer); and, of course, the lightning rod.

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin ... the Franklin stove (a wood burning stove that made home heating safer); and, of course, the lightning rod.