Every time Ben Franklin saw a question and tried to answer it, Ben is most famous for his questions about electricity. He hypothesized that lightning was an electrical current. To test his theory he needed to see whether or not lightning would pass through metal. So he attached a metal key to a kite and flew it in a storm...
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So he attached a metal key to a kite and flew it in a storm. His experiment proved that lightning was a stream of electrified air, known as plasma. Ben realized that lightning was immensely powerful, so he invented the lightning rod. The lightning rod is a piece of metal attached to a building, house, boat, etc...
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