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Benjamin Franklin’s sentry-box experiment.

Drawing reproduced from the “Bowdoin MS”, which consists of a manuscript copy of all of Franklin’s earliest papers on electricity, copied by two amanuenses and corrected by Franklin, and sent by Franklin to Bowdoin in 1750.

Cf. I. Bernard Cohen, The Two Hundredth Anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's Two Lightning Experiments and the Introduction of the Lightning Rod, in: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 96, No. 3. (Jun. 20, 1952), pp. 331–366.
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Benjamin Franklin  (1706–1790)  wikidata:Q34969 s:en:Author:Benjamin Franklin q:en:Benjamin Franklin
 
Benjamin Franklin
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pseudonym: Silence Dogood; Ben Franklin; The First American; Franklin; Poor Richard
Description -American author, statesman, politician, inventor and diplomat
Date of birth/death 17 January 1706 Edit this at Wikidata 17 April 1790 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Boston, Massachusetts Philadelphia. Pennsylvania
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