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                    Benjamin Franklin

In 1752. It was on a dark afternoon in Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin a 46 year-old man who decided to fly a kite. With some help from his son William. They attached his kite to a silk string, he tied an old iron key at the end. Then they tied a thin metal wire from the key and inserted the wire into a Leyden jar.

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That is a container for storing an electrical charge ,Finally as the sky darkened and a thunderstorm approached,

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He attached a long piece of silk ribbon to the key. Holding onto the kite by the silk ribbon, when the kite flew up into the air, He retreated into a barn so that he wouldn’t get wet. The thunder storm clouds passed over Franklin's kite.The negative charges in the cloud passed onto his kite down the wet silk string, to the key, and into the jar. Ben however, was unaffected by the negative charges because he was holding the dry silk ribbon, insulating him from the charges on the key. When he moved his free hand near the iron key,

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He received a shock. Why? Because the negative charges in the key were so strongly attracted to the positive charges in his body, a spark jumped from the key to his hand.
or The electricity struck the string of the kite because of the key the electricity reacts to metal and stikes the key then the lighting runs down the line.

  <--- here is a drawing of him flying the kite