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Franklin's experiment, June 1752. [graphic] : Demonstrating the identity of lightning and electricty, from which he invented the lightning rod.
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Contributor
Currier & Ives, printer.
Title
Franklin's experiment, June 1752. [graphic] : Demonstrating the identity of lightning and electricty, from which he invented the lightning rod.
Publisher
New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St
Publisher
N.Y. New York. 1876
Date
c1876
Physical Description
1 print : lithograph.
Description
Depicts Benjamin Franklin during his kite experiment in a meadow near a dwelling in Philadelphia in 1752. Shows Franklin holding the string of the kite on which a key is tied. His twenty-one year old son, William, anachronistically shown as a boy, assists him. A lightening bolt crosses the sky.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 278
Library of Congress: PGA - Currier & Ives--Franklin's experiment ... (A size) [P&P]. LOC holds two copies, one tinted.
Subject
Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 -- Portraits.
Franklin, William, 1731-1813 -- Portraits.
Electricity -- Experiments -- History.
Lightning -- Experiments -- History.
Experiments -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Genre prints -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library of Congress| Prints and Photographs Division | LOC PGA - Currier & Ives--Franklin's experiment ... (A size) [P&P]
Library of Congress| Prints and Photographs Division | LOC PGA - Currier & Ives--Franklin's experiment ... (A size) [P&P] Tinted
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