Re: CHAT: Ben Franklin (was Re: Re: CHAT: cultural interpretation)
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 7, 2003, 9:47 |
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Staving Dan Sulani:
>On 4 July, Peter Bleackley wrote:
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> > Large parts of the US constitution were written by a man who flew a kite
>in
> > a thunderstorm. This explains a lot.
>
> Well, maybe not. According to an article from
>the Sunday Telegraph (June 1st, 2003),
>Franklin apparently proposed the experiment, but
>never carried it out.
I saw something similar in the Guardian a couple of weeks ago.
Nethertheless, it was extremely irresponsible - I've read (while doing an
18th century history project at primary school, for which I studied
Franklin) that people were killed trying to reproduce the experiment.
Pete