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Hello all, Eric Rivenis with the Most Notorious podcast here.

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On a summer afternoon in 1752, as storm clouds gathered over Philadelphia and rain spattered the city.

Writer, diplomat, inventor, scientist, and all-around polymath, Benjamin Franklin,

did not seek shelter inside as so many others did.

Rather, he saw an opportunity to conduct an experiment that he had been planning for some time.

He prepared a kite, but rather than a paper kite, this one was a silken handkerchief,

stretched over crossed sticks, making it more likely to withstand the wind and the rain of the storm.

And he attached to the kite a house key. Most Americans are very

familiar with this experiment, but in its countless retellings, it has become a historical myth,

with many claiming that in conducting it, Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity. In truth, electricity had been a recognized form of energy for more than a thousand years.

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