He Looked At It!
Lightning
he discovered it in his home of Philedalphia
Benjamin Franklin was the Father of Electricity. He did not invent it, but he did discover it. He simply did the kite and key experiment to find that lightning is just electricity.
Benjamin Franklin did not discover electricity when his kite was struck by lightning in 1752. In fact, electricity was already well known at the time. Instead, Franklin was trying to prove the electrical nature of lightning. He discovered lightning was electricity and that electricity was found naturally in nature. For more information visit http://learn.fi.edu/franklin/scientst/electric.html
Benjamin Franklin was the first to discover electricity.
He used a kite that's where the term "flying kite in the rainstorm" comes from.
Benjamin Franklin was the first to discover electricity.
1789
Benjamin Franklin did not discover electricity, but simply discovered that lightning was electricity.
Benjamin Franklin did not invent electricity. He did some experiments with it however. One experiment (that may be only a legend) is that he flew a kite in a thunderstorm, and confirmed by the charge on a metal key that lightning is an electrical phenomenon. I LIKE PIE
No. Electricity was around long before Ben Franklin -- or humans for that matter.
No -- electricity has been known about and studied at least since the time of the ancient Greeks, and basic ideas about its nature predated Franklin by a few decades. All that Franklin showed was that lightning was a type of electricity, and thus could be handled the same way. From this he developed the lightning rod.