A home in Melissa is one of many North Texas houses in ashes after being struck by lightning, preventable with lightning rods during storms, experts say.

An apparent lightning strike which ignited a blaze destroying a home in Winifred was a sobering reminder that we are living in the lightning capital of the United States. Len Hathaway looks at the ...

I saw a 20-second security camera clip on Facebook of ball lightning. It came out of the sky, rolled, and “walked” around a ...

Yes, that Benjamin Franklin. The Boston-born founding father gained fame as a statesman, newspaper guy and public intellectual — and as the inventor of lightning rods, bifocals, the glass ...

Only a tiny fraction of Americans are rich enough for it to matter anyway. And many wealthy taxpayers already locked their ...

The $100 bill has featured Benjamin Franklin ... he proved lightning was electricity and invented the lightning rod, bifocals and Franklin stove. He also founded the first public library and ...

Unfortunately, there isn’t a ton of evidence that the million-dollar technology is more effective than the much cheaper lightning rod that has served humanity since Benjamin Franklin first ...

The Tokyo Skytree’s height makes it a literal lightning rod, with at least 10 strikes ... While it has been more than 270 years since Benjamin Franklin, one of the US’ founding fathers ...

In part because Benjamin Franklin had such a multifarious career ... Franklin’s well-known practical inventions—the lightning rod, bifocals, the so-called Franklin stove—were not merely ...

In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has ... and Munson chronicles his work on printing techniques, lightning rods and efficient stoves (SN: 7/17/23).

Indeed, Benjamin Franklin got us halfway there with the invention of lightning rods, which attract and capture lightning and direct it into the ground. The other half—taming it—is the hard part.