You put the key on the kite and fly it all around...
Whether or not Benjamin Franklin ever performed his famous
kite experiment (and there is a good chance he did...but historians being
historians must question everything), his treatise on electricity is a rock solid resource that puts America's most famous (or infamous, depending on which side of the Revolution you came down on) and has stood the
test of time. Like his Almanac, which
was successful for 34 years, Experiments
and Observations on Electricity was published well into the 20th century...a
run of over 200 years....
Consisting mainly of correspondence between himself and Peter
Collinson, Franklin continued to update and expand the book throughout
successive printings. This work is the
only scientific book Franklin ever had printed...perhaps that is why we
associate him so closely with this natural phenomena.
Experiments and Observations on Electricity