In the mid-18th century, Benjamin Franklin helped elucidate the nature of lightning and endorsed the protective value of ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy ... of course, the lightning rod. Later, while in France, he pioneered the idea of daylight saving time ...

Now, thanks to years of dogged fundraising on both sides of the Atlantic, Benjamin Franklin's only surviving ... perfected his famous lightning rod. As a result, lightning rods were placed on ...

Christopher Leaman Benjamin Franklin was, in his own words ... The inventor of the Franklin wood-burning stove, the lightning rod, bifocal glasses, a chair that converted into a stepladder ...

It highlights the importance of lightning rods and other protective measures ... of lightning began in earnest in 1752 with Benjamin Franklin's famous experiment. Franklin proved that lightning ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy ... of course, the lightning rod. Later, while in France, he pioneered the idea of daylight saving time ...