Ben Franklin’s famous experiment with the kite and key gave him a better understanding of the nature of electricity. But did that event lead to the lightning rod? When Benjamin Franklin died in ...

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial ... The inventor of the Franklin wood-burning stove, the lightning rod, bifocal glasses, a chair that converted into a ...

The list of his inventions included: bifocals; the medical catheter; the odometer; the Franklin stove (a wood burning stove that made home heating safer); and, of course, the lightning rod.

In the mid-18th century, Benjamin Franklin helped elucidate the ... Electrical Discharge made the case for Harris’s invention ...

The list of his inventions included: bifocals; the medical catheter; the odometer; the Franklin stove (a wood burning stove that made home heating safer); and, of course, the lightning rod.