well the story is that he seemed to have got a kite and went into some horrible storm and got shocked by a volt of electricity.
Amazingly, nobody was electrocuted and Franklin became convinced and was able to convince scientists that lighting was a electrical discharge.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin. The very famous scientist who did experiments with flying kites during lightning and declared that lightning is due to the electrical discharge between oppositely charged clouds.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
To my knowledge Benjamin Franklin did not store lightning energy in a bottle. There were capacitors called Leyden flasks at the time which could store electrical energy.
He proved lightning to be electrical energy with his famous kite experiment in 1752.
One inventor of the lightning rod was Benjamin Franklin. Another was a German priest, Diwisch. Both appear to have made their inventions in the same decade, around 1753. See "Who Really Invented The Lightning Rod?", The Electrical Review, volume 32, 10Feb1893, p.146.
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Benjamin Franklin.
Benjamin Franklin did not discover electricity when his kite was struck by lightning in 1752. In fact, electricity was already well known at the time. Instead, Franklin was trying to prove the electrical nature of lightning. He discovered lightning was electricity and that electricity was found naturally in nature. For more information visit http://learn.fi.edu/franklin/scientst/electric.html