Now, thanks to years of dogged fundraising on both sides of the Atlantic, Benjamin Franklin's only surviving ... perfected his famous lightning rod. As a result, lightning rods were placed on ...

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

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 ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy ... of course, the lightning rod. Later, while in France, he pioneered the idea of daylight saving time ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy ... of course, the lightning rod. Later, while in France, he pioneered the idea of daylight saving time ...