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Franklin Institute Online: Electrified Ben ActivityFranklin Institute Online: Electrified Ben Activity
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The Franklin Institute
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9th - 10th
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Franklin Institute Online: Electrified Ben

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This site from the Franklin Institute Online provides a somewhat simplistic but interesting tale of Ben's electrical activities. Fine link to "electricity bells", in Franklin's own words. Some other links to projects, maybe not so wonderful. Gee, it says "Even today, scientists are still studying electricity and learning more about it!" !!! Gosh. Did I say there's a 59K audio of thunder!

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Concepts

benjamin franklin, electricity, lightning

Additional Tags

charge, condenser, discharge, electrical current, conductor, electricity tube, kite, lightning bell, metal key, benjamin franklin, inventor

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  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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