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19 hours ago · BENJAMIN FRANKLINPart One - Friday, July 12 at 9 pm"Join or Die" (1706-1774)After building a printing empire in Philadelphia with his wife Deborah, Benjamin Franklin gains worldwide fame from
4 days ago · Following these experiments, he invented a lightning rod. It is either Franklin (more frequently) or Ebenezer Kinnersley of Philadelphia (less frequently) who is considered to have established the convention of positive and negative electricity.
3 days ago · Leaving behind his Boston childhood, Franklin reinvents himself in Philadelphia where he builds a printing empire and a new life with his wife, Deborah. Turning to science, Franklin’s lightning rod and experiments in electricity earn him worldwide fame.
1 day ago · Studies of some 1,500 lightning-fire and damage losses, reported in newspapers during a 3-month period, reveal that upward of 4% of them involve television sets and their antennas. That's no small matter - $4,800,000 annually. Those facts pointedly illustrate that an unprotected antenna actually invites lightning to strike.
3 days ago · “Franklin’s lightning-rod had been adopted by a rich landowner of the neighbourhood, and the good folks who see wickedness in all new things raised a clamour against these rods. “What! Shouldn’t God have the right to strike a house with lightning, if he pleased?
1 day ago · Franklin discharged anger the way his lightning rod discharged electricity, through deflection. Patience was the key. He waited for the storm of fury to pass so he could see more clearly. Franklin’s mastery of anger enlarged his range of motion. Anger-proof, he could engage in heated debates without fear of fire breaking out.
Aug 9, 2023 · In 1743 he founded the American Philosophical Society. The source of many inventions, Franklin was best known for his famous kite-flying experiment that he conducted during a lightning storm, and he wrote a scholarly paper on electricity.
