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Franklin's Experiments in Elecricity

Franklin's Experiments in Elecricity

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Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky - Benjamin West In 1751 the Royal Society published Benjamin Franklin's book, "Experiments and Observations on Electricity: Made in Philadelphia in America."  Franklin described his scientific findings in a series of letters to Peter Collinson, a Quaker merchant and Society fellow in London who provided Franklin with a Leyden or Leiden jar.    A Leiden jar is a primitive capacitor (also known as a condenser) that stores static electricity like a battery.  In a 1752 experiment Franklin flew a specially designed kite with his son William in a th...
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