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...y - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''[[Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky]]'', an artistic rendition of Franklin's kite experiment painted by ...to its apex is flown near thunder clouds to collect [[static electricity]] from the air and conduct it down the wet kite string to the ground. The experime ...

| birth_place = [[Bordeaux]], France ...tutions on the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences at the [[University of Bordeaux]]. A prolific writer, he authored more than 60 books and more than 600 arti ...

...successive positions to spell out text messages in semaphore code, and the people in the next tower would read them.]] ...egraph''' which uses panels that can be rotated to block or pass the light from the sky behind to convey information. ...

...only two of the cities that received Flyover that year had over a million people.<ref name="auto2"/><ref>{{Cite web|last=Lovejoy|first=Ben|url=https://9to5m ...tions – mostly big cities, landmarks and some national parks – can be seen from a birds-eye perspective. The three-dimensional views are photo-realistic, a ...