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

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife ... William assisted in the kite experiment, making him the only person to witness his father’s successful demonstration that lightning is electricity.

In part because Benjamin Franklin had such a multifarious ... demonstration of the electric nature of lightning in his kite-flying experiment. For his work on electricity, he was awarded the ...

John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to fly a kite in a ...