Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius by Joyce Chaplin Stealing God’s Thunder: Benjamin Franklin’s Lightning Rod and the Invention of America by Philip Dray ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy ... the man who risked life and limb to fly a kite in a lightning storm. (He was well insulated, it turns ...

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 ...

Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance man ... political thinker in the English colonies in North America; invent the lightning rod, bifocals, and swim fins; make a number of crucial scientific ...

While it has been more than 270 years since Benjamin Franklin, one of the US’ founding fathers, realised that lightning was a form of electricity, mysteries still persist over the natural ...

Benjamin Franklin, a towering figure in American history and ingenuity, may soon take a more prominent place in the U.S.