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What happened after Benjamin Franklin touched the key on the kite experiment?
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∙ 15y ago
He got electrified by the thunder in the air and created electricity.
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∙ 12y agoIt worked because the electricity shot through the kite to the key.
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One of the big problems in the 1700's was fires caused by lightening and people were very afraid of their house, barn, or business catching fire. Fire was very dangerous because once started it often moved very fast and burned whole areas or towns. He figured out that if a metal rod was placed on the roof it take the brunt of the lightening and save the structure. By the way, he also started the first fire department in Philadelphia.
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What contribution did Franklin make to understanding electricity?
Benjamin Franklin made many important contributions to the study of electricity. Most people know only about his famous kite experiment, but he was actually one of the foremost electrical scientists of his day. He became fascinated with the topic when he saw some electrical experiments performed in 1746. He acquired a Leyden jar (a device that stores static electrical charges) and began to perform experiments and formulate theories - he didn't just use electricity to play parlor tricks as most of his friends did. Franklin made an electrical battery, roasted a fowl on a spit turned by electricity, sent a current through water to ignite alcohol, and ignited gunpowder with an electrical charge. Before Franklin, electricity was generally thought to be the result of certain types of friction, such as rubbing silk over amber. Franklin thought that in fact, electricity was spread lightly throughout most substances, and that certain types of friction were able to organize or collect it in some way. Franklin was also the first person to develop the theory of positive and negative electricity. Franklin began to think about the possibility that lightning was in fact a huge electrical spark that consisted of the same type of electricity as that produced by rubbing amber with silk. In 1752, he performed his famous kite experiment, flying a kite up into the clouds during a storm and creating a spark when he put his knuckle near the key at the end of the kite string, proving that lightning was indeed electrical. He also stored electricity gathered from the clouds in a Leyden jar and found it able to do all the things that electricity gathered from silk and amber could do, proving that both types of electricity were really the same. Note that Franklin did not stand around waiting for the unlikely possibility that lightning would strike the kite; he simply flew it up into the clouds where he surmised an electrical charge was building, and he was correct. Building fires caused by lightning striking a house were a tremendous problem at the time, with so many all-wooden buildings and limited means to fight the fire - a bucket brigade, not a pressure hose. Franklin began the use of lightning rods, tall pointed iron rods sticking up from the roofs of houses and carrying the electrical charge down into the ground, where it could be dispersed harmlessly. As with the kite, the rods did not need to be struck directly with lightnng to be effective; they merely had to pass through a low-lying cloud to draw off its electricity and lessen the possibility of a lightning strike.
How did Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment work?
Benjamin Franklin put his kite to the sky on a stormy day, he saw that there were loose threads standing up from the string. When he thought the kite was struck already, he touched the key with his knuckles and felt the shock.
Who famously flew a key on a kite in a lightning storm?
Benjamin Franklin. He did this and observed electricity. He touched his finger to the key and felt a shock. This is where the basics of electricity were discovered.
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