When it comes to electricity, Ben Franklin is the first thing that pops up in most people’s head. Ben didn’t invent electricity but he was able to do many things that were really incredible. His first and most famous experiment with electricity was him flying a kite in a thunderstorm. “He wanted to prove that lightning is electricity” (Usel, 1996). So Ben and his son William had decided to try an electrical experiment during a thunderstorm. They both walked to the top of a hill and let the kite go up. They wanted to get electricity to hit the rod on the kite and travel down the rope and hit the key. Soon, the fiber of the string that he was holding began to stand up and then he received a tingle of an electric shock from the key in the palm of his hands (Cousins, 1952). He also brought along a bottle so he could trap the electricity in it. “This was a great moment in the history of electricity. Ben himself must have been overcome with wonder, because he never said much about it. He talked about almost everything else. The reports of the discovery did not come out for several years later.” (Cousins, 1952)

One day, Franklin decided he was going to have a picnic by using electric. This meant killing the animal with an electric shock and electrically cooking it over a fire. “He thought that meat might be more tender if the animal from which it came was killed by electricity” (Donovan, 1952). He got his electricity from two glass bottles. Then when he trie

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