Tornado Alley (PROG)

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A brilliantly simply clear picture of brilliance. Had never read of Edison standing inside before. Am waiting now for the first of our conservative misconception managers to inform this ignorant board that in fact Edison discovered electricity. Nice one. Just awful bad news of

Franklin wasn’t the first to demonstrate the electrical nature of lightning. A month earlier it was successfully done by Thomas-François Dalibard in northern France. And a year after Franklin’s kite experiment, Baltic physicist Georg Wilhelm Richmann attempted a similar trial but was killed when he was struck by ball lightning (a rare weather phenomenon). .. https://fi.edu/en/science-and-education/benjamin-franklin/kite-key-experiment , Richmann.

June, 1752, Philadelphia. Sweet.