An illustration of Benjamin Franklin conducting his kite-and-key experiment during a thunderstorm. (Image credit: Keith Lance via Getty Images) A few publications at the time reported on the ...

Most Americans are familiar with the story of Benjamin Franklin and his famous 18th-century experiment in which he attached a metal key to a kite during a thunderstorm to see if the lightning ...

Benjamin Franklin is best known by many for his famous kite-flying experiment in Philadelphia. But some people aren’t sure how much of the legend is fact – or fiction.

On June 10th, 1752, Benjamin Franklin did a very dangerous thing. He flew a kite on a stormy day, ... then electricity would travel down the wet kite string and make a key tied to the string spark.

The British Quaker who challenged Ben Franklin is back at Quintessence Theatre. Franklin’s key and kite (and the painting) become essential parts to solving the mystery.

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.

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

The key from Ben Franklin’s kite experiment opened this front door By . Zachary Kussin. Published Oct. 11, 2016, 3:03 p.m. ET. ... was built by master carpenter Benjamin Loxley, ...

Moment of Science: The Key & The Kite “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” -Benjamin Franklin. He was a Founding Father with a fondness for experiments.

In his new book, "Bolt of Fate," Tom Tucker poses the provocative theory that Benjamin Franklin never did fly his famous kite.

It is one of the most famous experiments in scientific history: generations of schoolchildren have been taught how Benjamin Franklin, the 18th-century American inventor and statesman, risked his ...

David Snyder dines at Kite & Key off the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and finds a place where the food hasn’t caught up to the beers. The kitchen, on the other hand, doesn’t complete the circuit.