Good stories for great birthdays : arranged for story-telling and reading aloud and for the children's own reading (1922)
Olcott, Frances Jenkins · Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 214
the same, by drawing light-ning down from the clouds along a pack-string.He used a silk kite, with a sharp-pointed wirefastened to its framework, and a silk ribbon tiedto the end of the kite-string holding a metal keyin place. He secretly flew the kite during a June thunder-storm. And as he saw the… … FRANKLIN AND THE KITE EXPERIMENT THE RISING SUN 171 His discovery was soon known throughout theworld. Men made other experiments, and intime invented the wonderful electrical machinesand devices which we enjoy to-day. THE RISING SUN WHEN the Federal Constitutional Conventionmet at Philadelphia,…
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