1Opinions and Conjectures, [29 July 1750] (Franklin Papers)
...Now, however, he adds the important detail that the lightning rods should be grounded.
2To Benjamin Franklin from James Bowdoin, 2 March 1752 (Franklin Papers)
...struck by lightning, 1732–65, and a lightning rod was erected, 1763. I. N. Phelps...
3From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 14 September 1752 (Franklin Papers)
...by a report of Dalibard’s experiment with a lightning rod at Marly, France, May 10 (above, p...
4The Kite Experiment, 19 October 1752 (Franklin Papers)
...September Franklin erected a lightning rod on his own house, ingeniously equipping it...
5William Watson to the Royal Society, 20 December 1752 (Franklin Papers)
...of rounded and pointed lightning rods will receive considerable attention in later...
6Poor Richard Improved, 1753 (Franklin Papers)
...s first published description of the lightning rod, although he had proposed such a device in...
7Jean-Antoine Nollet: Letters on Electricity, [January 1753?] (Franklin Papers)
...receive European books. Franklin had proposed the lightning rod, but had not erected one: was...
8From Benjamin Franklin to William Smith, 19 April 1753 (Franklin Papers)
...tenth part of what you said of old Ben Lightning-rod. Did you?” and that Smith “laughed...
9To Benjamin Franklin from Peter Collinson, 20 July 1753 (Franklin Papers)
...of lightning and electricity, with a lightning rod installed at the country estate of the...
10[November 1755] (Adams Papers)
...been engagingly recounted by Eleanor M. Tilton in “Lightning-Rods and the Earthquake of 1755,...