MIDDLEFIELD — Those who visited Lyman Orchards this weekend navigated through a piece of Americana, trying to escape a Benjamin Franklin-themed corn maze honoring the founding father’s kite ...

Benjamin Franklin and his son William demonstrate the electrical nature of lightning while flying a kite. The Founding Father had a close relationship with his young son—preparing him to become ...

Hand-colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives in 1876, probably the most widely distributed illustration of Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment. Franklin is wrongly shown to be holding the ...

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.

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 experiment.

Some of the most iconic images of the American polymath Benjamin Franklin show him doing a very silly thing — flying a kite in a thunderstorm. This is a reference to a famous experiment that Franklin ...

In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a look at the work of professional kite-maker Mikio Toki and the significance of kite-flying.

The actor plays Benjamin Franklin during a diplomatic trip to France in this eight-part series on Apple TV+.

Let’s talk about the kite and the lightning storm. In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated ...

Benjamin Franklin has been confirmed as a character in Assassin's Creed III. The inventor, author and politician plays an important role in ACIII -- as a bawdy womanizer.

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 experiment.