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Bolt of Fate: Benjamin Franklin and His Electric Kite Hoax
Bolt of Fate Benjamin Franklin and His Electric Kite Hoax
Author: Tom Tucker
Was Benjamin Franklin's famous electric kite experiment a fraud? And did it determine the course of the American Revolution? Every schoolchild in America knows that Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1752. Electricity from the clouds above traveled down the kite's twine and threw a spark from a key that Franklin...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781891620706
ISBN-10: 1891620703
Publication Date: 6/2003
Pages: 297
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Publisher: PublicAffairs
Book Type: Hardcover
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