Is there anything Ben Franklin didn't invent? Bifocals, odometers, swim fins, political cartoons, batteries, Franklin stoves and, of course, the first lightning rod were all results of Franklin's ...

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Brazilian researchers captured on camera the brief moment when lightning rods on buildings released an upward discharge to attract incoming lightning. By Nicholas Bakalar Benjamin Franklin invented ...