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 ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Legend has it that 250 years ago this month, Benjamin Franklin sailed a kite and a key into a stormy Philadelphia sky and discovered that lightning was a form of electricity. His test ...

Illustrations of scientific experiments play a fundamental role in both science education and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the general public. Confirming the adage that “a picture is ...

In the summer of 1752, Benjamin Franklin ... others attempting similar experiments had already died. Franklin was lucky that his kite only gathered ambient charge rather than taking a bolt head-on.

Historians have spent centuries examining Benjamin Franklin’s groundbreaking inventions, but what if the Founding Father’s biggest discovery remained a secret? A new play imagines an alternate history ...

Landscape scene with dark trees and clouds; Benjamin Franklin and a young boy stand in the foreground, Franklin is holding a kite string with a large key hanging from ...