Franklin's experiment, June 1752: Demonstrating the identity of lightning and electricty, from which he invented the lightning rod – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Franklin's experiment, June 1752: Demonstrating the identity of lightning and electricty, from which he invented the lightning rod. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Franklin's experiment, June 1752: Demonstrating the identity of lightning and electricty, from which he invented the lightning rod
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Franklin is shown flying a kite during a thunderstorm in June 1752, a test of whether lightning was the same force as the electricity he had been studying indoors. A metal key tied to the wet string drew a spark, which he took as evidence that the two were one and the same. Currier & Ives issued this lithograph in New York around 1876, during the centennial years when Franklin's achievements were widely celebrated. The experiment led directly to his invention of the lightning rod, which protected buildings from strikes.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1876. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2305 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,155 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109474 |
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