In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...

Benjamin Franklin did not invent electricity, but he discovered how to harness its power for common use. Franklin's kite ...

in his critical edition of Franklin’s own long out-of-print “Experiments and Observations on Electricity,” and again in 1990 in a collection of essays, “Benjamin Franklin’s Science.” ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever ... Around 1748 Franklin began his electricity research, establishing electricity and meteorology as viable ...