Bolt Of Fate: Benjamin Franklin And His Electric Kite Hoax by Tom Tucker

Bolt Of Fate: Benjamin Franklin And His Electric Kite Hoax

Tom Tucker

320 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative slow-paced
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Benjamin Franklin's 1752 electric kite experiment, using lightning to throw a spark from a key, made him a celebrity, winning sympathy in France for the fight against the British. This text shows Franklin to be a great hoaxer and the fabled experi...

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