The Lightning Heist: Franklin's Electric Discovery

Scientists literally took electricity from the sky and nobody talks about how amazing that

actually is. Benjamin Franklin didn't just fly a kite in a thunderstorm for fun.

He was basically committing the most dangerous heist in human history, stealing pure energy

from nature itself. The man tied a metal key to a kite string during a lightning storm and somehow

survived getting hit by millions of volts of electricity. But here's what they don't teach

you in school. Franklin wasn't the first person to experiment with electricity.

Ancient Babylonians had discovered that rubbing amber created static electricity thousands of years

earlier. They called it the soul of the stone. What Franklin did was figure out how