In about 1816, artist Benjamin West painted this likeness of American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin, who was born on this day in 1706. Franklin's fabled experiment with a kite in lightning ...
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 ...
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