i can't imagine someone sober walking into a thunderstorm with a kite and a key attached!.!.!. he must have smoked several bowels before getting this ideaWww@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: he was the first to discover the principle of conservation of charge!.[12] In 1750, he published a proposal for an experiment to prove that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a storm that appeared capable of becoming a lightning storm!. On May 10, 1752, Thomas-Fran?ois Dalibard of France conducted Franklin's experiment (using a 40-foot-tall iron rod instead of a kite) and extracted electrical sparks from a cloud!. On June 15, Franklin may have possibly conducted his famous kite experiment in Philadelphia and also successfully extracted sparks from a cloud, although there are theories that suggest he never performed the experiment!. Franklin's experiment was not written up until Joseph Priestley's 1767 History and Present Status of Electricity; the evidence shows that Franklin was insulated (not in a conducting path, since he would have been in danger of electrocution in the event of a lightning strike)!. (Others, such as Prof!. Georg Wilhelm Richmann of Saint Petersburg, Russia, were electrocuted during the months following Franklin's experiment!.) In his writings, Franklin indicates that he was aware of the dangers and offered alternative ways to demonstrate that lightning was electrical, as shown by his use of the concept of electrical ground!. If Franklin did perform this experiment, he did not do it in the way that is often described, flying the kite and waiting to be struck by lightning, as it would have been fatal!.[13] Instead, he used the kite to collect some electric charge from a storm cloud, which implied that lightning was electrical!. On October 19 in a letter to England explaining directions for repeating the experiment, Franklin wrote: "When rain has wet the kite twine so that it can conduct the electric fire freely, you will find it streams out plentifully from the key at the approach of your knuckle, and with this key a phial, or Leiden jar, maybe charged: and from electric fire thus obtained spirits may be kindled, and all other electric experiments [may be] performed which are usually done by the help of a rubber glass globe or tube; and therefore the sameness of the electrical matter with that of lightening completely demonstrated!." He did it many times, he must have been stoned on SOMETHING!Www@QuestionHome@Com he did not discover it!. he was the first to discover the principle of conservation of charge!.[12] In 1750, he published a proposal for an experiment to prove that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a storm that appeared capable of becoming a lightning storm!.Www@QuestionHome@Com He apparently tied his keys to the kite so they wouldn't get lost!. And remember, back then electricity hadn't been discovered, so people were unaware of the effects of lightning, so he would've had no idea that something like that was going to happen!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I live next to Philadelphia and no he wasnt!. I see the statue of the kite and key everytime i cross the ben franklin bridge into phili and its beautifulWww@QuestionHome@Com not only was ben quite the ladies man!.!. he was known to down a few at the local pub now and then!.Www@QuestionHome@Com lol good point i think so!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |