Mike has the ability over the years to make museum quality examples of the technology of the eighteenth and nineteenth century technology and is currently portraying Franklin in venues that include children as well as adults. Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin West Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky by Benjamin West depicts the American founding father, conducting his kite experiment to ascertain the electrical nature of lighting. The talk will use a combination of a power point as well as replicas of some of his experiments that the guests can do themselves bringing the history of developments in electricity to life. The first collage in a series about Philadelphia made for this exhibition, the artist integrates. The presentation will start with the Greeks, move to the seventeenth century then the eighteenth century and finish in mid eighteenth century with a demonstration of his famous kite experiment. Mike’s presentation will show Franklin’s place in the history of the discoveries in electricity. Mike will be bring some reproductions of Franklin’s machines he used in his experiments as well as audience participation in some experiments to help tell the story of Benjamin Franklin’s involvement in these scientific experiments. Franklin asked his son William to fly a silk kite, to which he had attached a wire on top and a key at the end of a string. We all think we know the story of Benjamin Franklin, we know the story of him flying a kite in a thunderstorm, but do you know the other inventions he worked on? Benjamin Franklin Kite experimentHow Benjamin Franklin discovered electricityBenjamin Franklin and electricityMany people believe Benjamin Franklin discovere. The episode of the kite, so firm and fixed in legend, turns out to be dim and mystifying in fact. 'Before that he had thought of another way of proving his theory, and with the help of his electrical kite had drawn lightning from a cloud. Join us on Monday, Februas we welcome back Benjamin Franklin (aka Mike Kochan) who will be demonstrating some of Benjamin Franklin’s Experiments. However, Franklin did notice that loose threads of the kite string were repelling each other and deduced that the Leyden jar was being charged. From Carl Van Doren's 'Benjamin Franklin,' 1938 by Carl Van Doren.
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