REMAKING HISTORY
Benjamin Franklin’s Electrical Experiments
» There are two stories every American elementary school students knows: George Washington chopping down the cherry tree and Ben Franklin flying his kite in a thunderstorm to prove the electrical nature of lightning bolts. Both are good stories, but there’s a difference: Ben actually did fly his kite in the thunderstorm.
Few people have made as large an impact on daily life as Benjamin Franklin. Aside from his political and literary contributions, he was colonial America’s greatest scientist. It seems that nearly half the words we commonly use to describe our daily ...
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