"Franklin was the first scientist to propose that the identity of lightning and electricity could be proved experimentally, but he was not the first to suggest that identity, nor even the first to perform the experiment."
— Benjamin Franklin

January 1, 1970

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AphoristsEngineers from the United StatesFounding Fathers of the United States of AmericaElectrical engineersGovernors of Pennsylvania
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Joseph Priestley; "The Kite Experiment", The Pennsylvania Gazette, October 19, 1752; also copy: The Royal Society. II. Printed in Joseph Priestley, The History and Present State of Electricity, with Original Experiments (London, 1767), pp. 179–81