Back on this day in 1752 Benjamin Franklin flies a kite during a thunder storm.

Back on this day in 1752 Benjamin Franklin flies a kite during a thunder storm. He performed this now famous experiment see if the key attached to the kite string would draw an electrical charge. Historians doubt that lightning actually struck the key, over else Franklin would have been shocked. 

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