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Benjamin Franklin is famous for his kite experiment, which proved that lightning is an electrical phenomenon. When the negative charges in the key came in contact with the positive charges in his body, a spark jumped from the key to his hand, thus proving that lightning is a form of static electricity.
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∙ 15y agohe used a kite and a key.he went out on a rainy day and tied the key on the end of the kite and flew it in the air. then it electricutedhim
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∙ 12y agohe flew a kite into a storm with a key at the middle of it, and since the kits in the air and the key was made of medal... BOOM, static electricity!!!
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∙ 13y agoHe did not prove lightning was static electricity......
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∙ 12y agoNo, people already had observed lightning. He found out that lightning was made of electricity, though. See related link.
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∙ 15y agoIn 1750
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How may people in the US are killed by lightning each year?
An average of 62 people die from lightning in the U.S. each year.
What are some record-setting lightning strikes?
The Empire Statebuilding located in New York is strucked by lightning 100 times each year. The Empire Statebuilding located in New York is strucked by lightning 100 times each year. The Empire Statebuilding located in New York is strucked by lightning 100 times each year.
How many people are annually killed from lightning?
mostly the ones that don t have the sense to come inside during a storm
What is electricity in the sky?
A giant spark that flashes across the sky. Each bolt zigzags through the air at many thousand of miles (kilometers) a second! Its electrical charge of about 100 million volts would be enough to light a small town for a whole year! The charge comes from tiny drops of water or ice that bump and rub within huge, towering cumulonimbus clouds. When the charge gets big enough, it creates the lightning. Bolts jump between the cloud and the ground or between two clouds.
How many damage is caused by lightning each year?
11
What year was the lightning invented?
lightning was never invented, it is nature. Ben Frankilin disovered electricity by using lightning to prove that there was electrcity.
When did benjamin franklin make the lightning rod?
No. Franklin just proved that lightening was natural in nature with his kite experiment, but he did invent the lightening rod. Houses caught fire in the 1700's by lightening stikes, so he invented the lightening rod to be put on the roof of a house so it would get hit instead of the house. Edison will invent the light bulb in the late 1800's.
How old was Benjamin Franklin when he invented electricity?
Benjamin Franklin did not discover electricity, but simply discovered that lightning was electricity.
What year did benjamanin Franklin invent electricity?
He didn't. Thales, a Greek, found that when amber was rubbed with silk it attracted feathers and other light objects. He had discovered static electricity. The Greek word for amber is �electron', from which we get �electricity' and �electronics'. 1600 - William Gilbert invented the term electricity William Gilbert, scientist and physician to Queen Elizabeth I, invented the term electricity (from the Greek word for amber, elecktra). He was the first person to describe the earth's magnetic field and to realise that there is a relationship between magnetism and electricity. 1752 - Franklin proved that lightning is a form of electricity Benjamin Franklin, famous U.S. politician, flew a kite with a metal tip into a thunderstorm to prove that lightning is a form of electricity. He was very lucky he wasn't killed. Don't try this at home! answer is from the following link: http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/44783
What year did Benjamin Franklin make the light bulb?
Benjamin Franklin did not invent the lightning bulb? He did however discover electricity May 10th 1752. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1879.
What year was electricty discovered?
Hydroelectricity is electricity produced by harnessing the power of flowing water to make energy. Though water power had been used for a number of mechanical tasks since ancient times, it wasn't until 1878 that the world's first hydroelectric power system was introduced.
How much energy is in an lightning bolt?
If you catch on spark of a lightning bolt, it can give electricity to the world for a year.
What do Benjamin Franklin found out about electricity?
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.
What year did ben Franklin prove there are negative and positive charges?
go die
Can one flash of lightning contain enough electricity to light a house for a year?
yes
Who helped Benjamin Franklin invent the Lightning Rod?
The lightning Rod was not dicovered, it was invented. The way to use the lightning rod was discovered however. Ive done a lot of looking up on this subject but never found the name of the person responsible for inventing the lightning Rod.
How did people first discover electricity?
Many believe Benjamin Franklin to be the father of electricity, but current findings seem to show otherwise. In 1752, Franklin is said to have performed the famous experiment of flying a kite during a thunderstorm, which led to the discovery that lightning and electricity were somehow related. Modern scientists know this to be something of a tall tale, since being hit by lightning would have been fatal. It's likely that Franklin was actually insulated, away from the path of lightning. The history of electricity actually goes back more than two thousand years, to the time the Ancient Greeks discovered that rubbing fur on amber caused an attraction between the two. In the year 1600, English physician William Gilbert conned the term electric, from the Greek elektron, to identify the force that certain substances exert when rubbed against each other.
