PHILADELPHIA -- Legend has it that 250 years ago this month, Benjamin Franklin sailed a kite and a key into a stormy Philadelphia sky and made a shocking discovery: Lightning is a form of electricity.

PHILADELPHIA -- Legend has it that 250 years ago this month, Benjamin Franklin sailed a kite and a key into a stormy Philadelphia sky and made a shocking discovery: Lightning was a form of electricity ...

Georgia of Port Byron asks a multitude of lightning-related questions including whether Ben Franklin really did the kite-in-the-sky experiment. Yes he did and was darn lucky he wasn't electrocuted!

Ben Franklin is one of the most colorful, clever, and quoted of the founding fathers. Two hundred and fifty years ago this month, he performed his famous kite experiment which proved that lightning ...