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...Sky]]'', an artistic rendition of Franklin's kite experiment painted by [[Benjamin West]], c. 1816]] ...portedly conducted the experiment with the assistance of his son [[William Franklin|William]]. The experiment's purpose was to investigate the nature of [[ligh ...

[[File:franklinbells.jpg|thumb|alt=Franklin bells|An illustration of a set of Franklin bells, printed in [[George Adams (scientist, died 1795)|George Adams']] ''L ...ast2=Tuominen |first2=M. T. |last3=Breuer |first3=M. L. |date=2001 |title="Franklin's Bells" and charge transport as an undergraduate lab |url=https://pubs.aip ...

...t in excess, or absent from a body, thus explaining its electrical charge. Franklin's theory explained how charges could be dispelled (such as those in [[Leyde ...res. The British Journal for the History of Science, 6 (2), 131-151.</ref> Franklin developed this theory mainly concentrating on the charging and discharging ...

...b|upright 1.10|Franklin's electrostatic machine <br /> on display at the [[Franklin Institute]]]] ...n jar]]{{snd}}a high-voltage [[capacitor]]{{snd}}to accumulate the charge. Franklin's experiments with the machine eventually led to new theories about [[elect ...

...erson to high voltage with [[static electricity]]. Named after [[Benjamin Franklin]].<ref>{{multiref|Pinchuk ''et al.'', p. 277|Chalovich, 20' 30"}}</ref> ...

...ublications. It appears frequently in the writings of [[Benjamin Franklin|Franklin]], [[Michael Faraday|Faraday]], [[James Clerk Maxwell|Maxwell]], [[Robert M ...

...)|William Watson]] in 1746 and American statesman and scientist [[Benjamin Franklin]] in 1747, although the first convincing proof was given by [[Michael Farad | quote = benjamin franklin william watson charge conservation. ...

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...serving in a diplomatic role in [[Paris]] with his grandfather [[Benjamin Franklin]].<ref>Schiff p. 377</ref> * [[Stacy Schiff|Schiff, Stacy]]. ''Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of America''. Bloomsbury, 2006. ...

...ideas developed in the 18th century about "electric fluid" (Dufay, Nollet, Franklin) and "electric charge".<ref name=Baigrie11>{{cite book|last=Baigrie|first=B ..., eventually became widely accepted at that time.<ref name=Cohen66/> After Franklin's work, effluvia-based explanations were rarely put forward.<ref>{{cite boo ...

...3x283px|[[Benjamin Franklin]] is one of the foremost polymaths in history. Franklin was a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer and politic ...l Lomonosov]], [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], [[Alan Turing]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[John von Neumann]], [[Omar Khayyam]], [[Charles Sanders Peirce]], [[H ...

...torycarper.com/resources/twobf3/letter1.htm|title=The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Volume III: London, 1757 - 1775 -- Letters of 1757 and 1758|date=2011-01-2 ...

...h-century philosophy of technology was centered on the ideas of [[Benjamin Franklin]] and [[Karl Marx]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2012}} ...

...TignerFig5US8066225 Farming crosswind kite power devices is illustrated by Benjamin Tigner.]] ...com/patents/US8066225 US8066225] ''Multi-tether cross-wind kite power'' by Benjamin Tigner filed on January 19, 2009, but has a priority date of January 31, 20 ...

...d with the power of magnetizing steel; and it was doubtless this which led Franklin in 1751 to attempt to magnetize a sewing-needle by means of the discharge o ...|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51763922 |title=Bolt of fate : Benjamin Franklin and his electric kite hoax |date=2003 |publisher=PublicAffairs |isbn=1-8916 ...

...FranklinMA_Library/libraryhistory |title=Town of Franklin – History of the Franklin Public Library |publisher=Franklinma.virtualtownhall.net |date=2010-06-29 | ...

...e Intellectual Rise in Electricity) from Antiquity to the Days of Benjamin Franklin'', New York: John Wiley & Sons.</ref>{{rp|489}}]] ...

...riestley]] (1767) ''History and Present Status of Electricity'', with whom Franklin carried on extended correspondence.]] ...a metal key to the bottom of a dampened kite string and [[Kite_experiment#Franklin's_kite_experiment|flown the kite in a storm-threatened sky]].<ref> ...

...er copying presses were used by the early 1780s by the likes of [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[George Washington]], [[Henry Cavendish]], and [[Thomas Jefferson]].<re ...