FRANKLIN’S KITE.
DECLARED A MYTH
Franklin’s famous experiment with ■I kite during a thunder shower, causing a shock through a key at the end of the string, was declared a myth that had taken its place with Washington's' axe and cherry tree, and William ■ Teli’s apple and arrow, in an address in Boston recently by Professor Alexander M.cAdie, director of (the Blue Hill observatory. “A coroner’s jury would have been holding an inquest over Franklin’s remains the next\ day if lie had performed the experiment as popular history had it,’’ the scientist said.
Professor McAdie. in the course of his discussion of lightning, said that Franklin, while perhaps not the Utest to suggest the identity of lightning with an electric discharge, was the first clearly to set forth the fact that certain clouds wore electrically charged, and that the discharge, or lightning, is to be regarded in all respects as the discharge of a large condenser.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 January 1925, Page 6
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156FRANKLIN’S KITE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 January 1925, Page 6
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