ended to observe, but before night a storm of Franklin’s experiment cost his immediate imitator blew up at the northeast and continued violent all his life. night, and all the next day, the sky thick-clouded, The correspondence in which Franklin outlined the dark and rainy, so that neither moon nor… … location. ning rods to conduct atmo- It is not amiss to regard Franklin as the first Ameri- Houdin’s Bust of Franklin. spheric electri- can heating and ventilating engineer; for between the years 1740 and 1745, his scientific investigations had city to the ground and thereby protect buildings was…
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