Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky, an artistic rendition of Franklin's kite experiment painted by Benjamin West, c. 1816
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 with the assistance of his son William. The experiment's purpose was to investigate the nature of lightning and electricity, which were not yet understood. Combined with further experiments on the ground, the kite experiment demonstrated that lightning and electricity were the result of the same phenomenon.
The kiteexperiment is a scientific experiment in which a kite with a pointed conductive wire attached to its apex is flown near thunder clouds to collect...
Benjamin Franklin published an account of a kiteexperiment to prove that lightning was caused by electricity. Kites were also instrumental in the research...
conducted his well-known kiteexperiment in Philadelphia, successfully extracting sparks from a cloud. He described the experiment in his newspaper, The...
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depicts American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin conducting his kiteexperiment in 1752 to ascertain the electrical nature of lighting. West composed...
depicted as a young child when he assisted his father in the famed kiteexperiment of 1752, Franklin was at least 21 years old at the time. As a young...
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received. The capsule was not recovered. The Kounotori Integrated Tether Experiment (KITE) was a test of tether technology on the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle...
notable experiments in physics. The list includes only experiments with Wikipedia articles. For hypothetical experiments, see thought experiment. Bell tests...
Alexander Graham Bell. It came about from his experiments with Hargrave's box kites and his attempts to build a kite that was scalable and big enough to carry...
air experiment (1660): Robert Boyle shows that the volume of a given amount of gas is inversely related to the pressure upon it. Kiteexperiment (1700s):...
character in novels, films, musicals, comics, and video games. His experiment, using a kite, to prove that lightning is a form of electricity has been an especially...
Around June 1752, Franklin reportedly performed his famous kiteexperiment. The kiteexperiment was repeated by Romas, who drew from a metallic string sparks...
famous kiteexperiment, duplicating experiments that show that lightning and electricity are the same. According to Franklin, lightning strikes the kite that...
1752, Franklin published a third-person account of his pioneering kiteexperiment in The Pennsylvania Gazette, without mentioning that he himself had...
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that lightning and electricity are the same. In Franklin's famous kiteexperiment, he successfully extracted sparks from a cloud during a thunderstorm...
speculated about lightning rods for several years before his reported kiteexperiment.[citation needed] In the 19th century, the lightning rod became a decorative...
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subject in his experiments with electricity, sending him into the air as part of his kiteexperiment. Amos is nearly killed when the kite is struck by lightning...
famous kiteexperiment, duplicating experiments that show that lightning and electricity are the same. According to Franklin, lightning strikes the kite that...
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