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 ... to witness his father’s successful demonstration that lightning is electricity. In the 1750s, the two of them traveled to London, where William ...

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