Benjamin Franklin's account of his kite experiment is read to the Royal Society on December 21, 1752, it was published in the Philosophical Transactions in 1753 (Volume 47, for the years 1751–1752). The account was from a letter, addressed to Peter Collinson. It confirmed the electrical nature of lightning.
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