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Benjamin Franklin, Electricty Experiment with Kite
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Title:
Benjamin Franklin, Electricty Experiment with Kite
Caption:
Benjamin Franklin's experiment with the kite "..when the string was thoroughly wet, abundance of electricity was procured..." Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American scientist, inventor and statesman. Franklin showed that lightning is electricity by flying a kite carrying a metal key during a thunderstorm. This led to his invention of the lightning rod to protect buildings from lightning strikes. He also invented fins for swimming, bifocal glasses, a urinary catheter and showed that evaporation cooled objects. In between all this, he also found time to found the USA, help shape the revolution and be a signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
Credit:
Album / NOAA/Science Source
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Image size:
2850 x 3924 px | 32.0 MB
Print size:
24.1 x 33.2 cm | 9.5 x 13.1 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
100 DOLLAR BILL • 1706 • 1726 • 1752 • 1775 • 1776 • 1790 • 18TH CENTURY • 18TH CENTURY, THE • 18TH • ACTIVIST • AMBASSADOR • AMERICA • AMERICAN • ART • ARTWORK • AUTHOR • B. FRANKLIN • BEN FRANKLIN • BENJAMIN FRANKLIN • BI-FOCAL • BIFOCALS • BOOK PRINTER • BW • CAPACITOR • CARRIAGE ODOMETER • CELEBRITY • CIVIC ACTIVIST • CIVL SERVANT • COLONIAL UNITY • COMMITTEE OF FIVE • DAD • DISCOVER • DRAWING • ELECTRICAL PHENOMENON • ELECTRICITY • ENLIGHTENMENT • EXPERIENCE • EXPERIMENT CONSTRUCTION = SETTING UP EXPERIMENT • EXPERIMENT CONSTRUCTION • EXPERIMENT • FAMOUS • FATHER • FIGURE • FIRE DEPARTMENT • FIRST AMERICAN • FIRST • FLYING A KITE • FLYING KITE • FOREIGN AFFAIRS • FOUNDING FATHER • FRANKLIN STOVE • FRANKLIN • GLASS ARMONIC • GLASSES • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • HODOMETER • ILLUSTRATION • IMPORTANT • IMPRESOR • INVENTOR (MALE) • INVENTOR • KITE FLYING • KITE • LENDING • LEYDEN JAR • LIBRARY • LIGHTING • LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR • LIGHTNING ROD • LOANING • MALE • MAN • MEN • METAL KEY • METAL WIRE • MILIOMETER • MUSICIAN • NOTABLE • ODOMETER • PEOPLE • PERSON • PERSONALITIES • PERSONALITY • PHYSICS • POLITICAL THEORIST • POLITICAL THEORY • POLITICAL • POLITICIAN • POLITICS • POLYMATH • PORTRAIT • POSTMASTER • POTRAIT • PRINTER • PUBLIC • PUBLISHER • SATIRIST • SCIENTIST • SETTING UP EXPERIMENT • SON • SPECTACLES • SPOKESMAN • STATESMAN • STOVE • THUNDERSTORM • TRADE: PRINTER • UNITED STATES • US • USA • WELL-KNOWN • WILLIAM • WRITER
