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Tucker, Tom Bolt of Fate: Benjamin Franklin and his electric kite hoax
Sutton 2004 0750936800 / 9780750936804 hardback NEW
NEW hardback in d/w. 297 pages. B/w illustrations. From the blurb: "Benjamin Franklin is an undisputed hero of the United States and, indeed, of Western democracy. The son of a candle-maker, he used his talents and abilities to rise in colonial American society and became a signatory of the US constitution and a Founding Father of the Republic. Politician, philanthropist, scientist, author, newspaperman and inventor, he was also a master hoaxer. Bolt of Fate deals with one of the most far-reaching of these hoaxes, one that until now had not even been suspected of being a hoax. It is widely known that Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1752. Electricity from the clouds above travelled down the kite's twine and threw a spark from a key that Franklin had attached to the string. He thereby proved that lightning and electricity were one. Yet what no one has proven until now, and what few have suggested, is that Franklin never flew the kite at all.". Tom Tucker is an award-winning author who writes about the history of invention, and is the author of The Eclipse Project.
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