Most Americans are familiar with the story of Benjamin Franklin and his famous 18th-century experiment in which he attached a metal key to a kite during a thunderstorm to see if the lightning would ...

Let’s talk about the kite and the lightning storm. In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that ...

It was June 1752 that one of the most famous and dangerous weather experiments may have been conducted. Most of us have seen the artist's rendering of the scene and heard the story of Benjamin ...

(From left to right) Thomas Jay Ryan (playing Benjamin Franklin) and Noah Keyishian (playing William Franklin) in “Franklinland” Credit: Jeremy Daniel When you think of famous scientists of the early ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Legend has it that 250 years ago this month, Benjamin Franklin sailed a kite and a key into a stormy Philadelphia sky and made a shocking discovery: Lightning is a form of electricity.

PHILADELPHIA -- Legend has it that 250 years ago this month, Benjamin Franklin sailed a kite and a key into a stormy Philadelphia sky and made a shocking discovery: Lightning was a form of electricity ...