What do Benjamin Franklin found out about electricity?

Answer 1

Benjamin Franklin decsovered electricity by flying a kite in the middle of a thunderstorm. he tied a key to the top and when lighting struck the rod it made electricity because the negitave charge from the cloud and the positive charge from the key repelled toghter and made electricity...
Benjamin Franklin found a way to control electric power using his famous kite experiment. He along with his son, William, flew a kite during a thunderstorm. The kite was attached to a silk string connected to a key. The key had wire tied around it leading to a Leyden jar. Benjamin Franklin held on to a silk ribbon also connected to the key. When lightning struck the kite, the electricity traveled down the silk string to the key, where it traveled down the wire to the Leyden jar. Benjamin Franklin was very lucky to be alive after performing this experiment, for many scientist have tried to imitate this experiment and have ended up being electrocuted.

Answer 2

"Zzzz!" he felt as he fainted to the ground.

"Are you all right?" he heard above him.

Slowly, he opened his eyes to see, but only to sight a mostly colorless blur. When he could see properly, he stood up with the help of the others who had made the commotion above him. Benjamin Franklin had proven electricity, his goal for many years.

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706. He was the 15th child out of a total of 17 brothers and sisters. Josiah Franklin, Benjamin's father, was born on Dec. 23, 1657. Abiah, Ben's mother, was born on Aug. 15, 1667.

At age 17, he ran away to Philadelphia to work on his own. He found a job as a printer and printed the Philadelphia Gazette, a newspaper. He invented the almanac in the print shop, selling about 10,000 copies a year. When he was an apprentice, he had learned how to type and print. That was how he could invent the almanac and print a newspaper.

Benjamin was very smart because he read many books. He was not afraid to experiment. When a thought popped in his head, like lightning is a source of electricity, he had the determination to prove it.

Ben and three of his friends were trying to analyze electricity and experiment with it. Two of his friends got electrocuted while they were working on this. While they did this experiment, they obviously proved that lightning was electricity. Yet, the world had not seen it, so Franklin decided to do the kite experiment, but alone.

Ben would always think about what he wanted to do in the experiment, find the materials, and think of how he could fix something if it did not work. Finally, he would gather the materials and do the experiment. Sometimes this process took a while. Ben was very keen to show the world that lightning was electricity. He wanted to prove this. He decided to use a metal key to do this experiment. Yet, he still needed a way to keep the key in the air. In 1752, on a stormy day, he raised his kite with a key tied near his hand. He could feel the electric shock go through his body. Ben had finally proven and understood lightning/electricity. Later that year, he invented the lightning rod.

In 1740, electricity was a novel and fashionable subject. Most people thought that electricity was as mysterious as heaven. When Franklin gave the idea of lightning being a source of electricity, people were exited, and he was supported all around the world.

If Ben hadn't discovered lightning was electricity, we would not have anything that could run on it. Although many people have researched electricity and found how it worked, fewer research and experiments would have happened. Electricity has gone far from Benjamin Franklin's basic idea. We now have computers, lamps, speakers, T.V., and many more things that run on electricity.

Answer 3

None, electricity was already well known at the time so Franklin could not discover it.

What he did was demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity (not a form of fire as some had believed) in his well known kite in a thunderstorm experiment.

However he was very lucky, as this experiment is very dangerous. Many scientists trying to replicate Franklin's kite experiment were killed by the lightning electricity!

Answer 4

Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity by flying a kite during a thunderstorm. (Sorry this doesn't answer your question, but the former answer was not Benjamin Franklin, but Luigi Galvani)

Answer 5

Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity on June 10th.

Answer 6

He went out side and held up a wire and lighting struck it and that's how he Ben Franklin discover electricity.

Answer 7

that lightning isa form of electricity