with which Benjamin Franklin once set out to prove the electrical nature of lightning. After their first attempt to attract lightning bolts in a storm by flying a kite attached to a grounded metal ...

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 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 ...