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6 juin 2022 · On June 10, 1752, Benjamin Franklin took a kite out during a storm to see if a key attached to the string would draw an electrical charge. Or so the story goes. In fact, historians aren’t quite...
- Becky Little
- 42 min
The kite experiment is a scientific experiment in which a kite with a pointed conductive wire attached to its apex is flown near thunder clouds to collect static electricity from the air and conduct it down the wet kite string to the ground. The experiment was first proposed in 1752 by Benjamin Franklin, who reportedly conducted the experiment ...
29 avr. 2024 · What was Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment? Of course, what really made Franklin a world-famous scientist was his legendary kite experiment, so famous that it even gets a namedrop in the musical Hamilton – that is, despite ongoing uncertainty whether it happened at all.
Learn how Franklin proved that lightning was an electrical discharge by flying a kite in a storm and attracting electricity with a pointed wire. Find out how he invented the lightning rod and explained positive and negative charges.
18 oct. 2018 · The article explores the controversy over whether Franklin really flew a kite to demonstrate the electrical nature of lightning in 1752. It reviews the historical sources, the scientific context and the possible explanations for the myth and the reality of the experiment.
28 déc. 2021 · On a dark, stormy summer night in 1752, Benjamin Franklin flew a kite with a key attached to the string waiting in anticipation for lightning to strike. The dramatic bolt would harken the...
10 août 2015 · It was exactly one month after the Dalibard experiment, on June 10, 1752, that Franklin (supposedly) performed his famous kite and key experiment. Franklin stood outside under a shelter...
