In the mid-18th century, Benjamin Franklin helped elucidate the nature of lightning and endorsed the protective value of ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy ... of course, the lightning rod. Later, while in France, he pioneered the idea of daylight saving time ...

Ben Franklin’s famous experiment with the kite and key gave him a better understanding of the nature of electricity. But did that event lead to the lightning rod? When Benjamin Franklin died in ...

Christopher Leaman Benjamin Franklin was, in his own words ... The inventor of the Franklin wood-burning stove, the lightning rod, bifocal glasses, a chair that converted into a stepladder ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy ... of course, the lightning rod. Later, while in France, he pioneered the idea of daylight saving time ...