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Lightning Strikes: Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Experiment
How much do you know about one of the most famous scientific experiments in American history? In 1752 Benjamin Franklin and his son William performed a dangerous act of experimentation, conjuring one of nature's most let...
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Lightning Strikes: Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Experiment is an episode from The First: Stories of Inventions and their Consequences by Greg Young. How much do you know about one of the most famous scientific experiments in American hi...
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Published Aug 11, 2017, 30:30 long, audio available.
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