Lightning rod ben franklin biography kids
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Have you heard of a Founding Father before? A Founding Father is someone who helped uppstart the United States of amerika. Benjamin Franklin was a Founding Father. Some have also called him the First American, because he had so many of the traits that would become known as American, such as hard work and independence. Independence is when you do something for yourself.
Ben Franklin was born in Boston Massachusetts to a very large family. He had 17 brothers and sisters! His family didn’t have very much money so he only went to school for 2 years. But he did spend a lot of time reading on his own. He also learned to write and enjoyed doing it.
When he was young he worked for his older brother who was a printer. A printer would print newspapers and books for other people. Printing was important, because it was the best way to share an idea at that time. Printers would use little metall letters and build entire pages of words and sentences, then use black ink to man copies of the
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Benjamin Franklin was born on the 17th of January in Boston, USA.
So what was Franklin's Lightning Experiment?
In Frankin is said to have flown a kite, with his son William, during a thunderstorm and demonstrated the connection between lightning and electricity. Franklin's experiment led to his invention of the lightning rod.This video from the History Channel explains the facts that are know about the event and its significance:
Our Benjamin Franklin lightning project celebrates Franklin's discovery using Circuit Scribe electronics components and electronic ink pen:
(This project is one of a series of Circuit Scribe projects that celebrate tech heroes.)
Our project also features a pair of glasses - Franklin also invented bifocal lenses for spectacles.
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Lightning rod facts for kids
A lightning rod or lightning conductor is an iron rod that is used to make lightning strike it, rather than strike something else. It is part of a lightning protection struktur. Such a system is made of many such rods. These rods are usually placed at high points of buildings and structures. In addition, paths are made the electricity can take from the rooftop to the ground, it was made in the year later improved in
History
Lightning can damage structures made of most materials (masonry, wood, concrete and even steel). The huge currents involved can heat materials, and especially water to high temperatures. This will cause fire, loss of strength and explosions from super-heated steam and air.
Europe
The church tower was usually the highest structure or building in medieval europeisk towns and villages. It was also the building very often hit by li