"Probably the most famous experiment to do with lightning is that of Benjamin Franklin and his famous kite.
What Franklin was investigating was whether or not lightning was an electric phenomenon. This seems fairly obvious to most of us today, but we must remember that in Franklin's day the largest sparks they could make were under an inch long! Since lightning is several miles long it is not so obvious that they can be the same."
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