How Did Benjamin Franklin use the scientic method to learn about electricity?
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he was flying a kit (with a key attach to it) while it's raining. and got shocked by the lightning.\n\nand that's how he discovered electricity
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Well, this story is probably apocryphal. But the MythBusters did a program on this and determined that even wet twine is a pretty poor conductor. Add to that the probability that the kite was tied to a stake in the ground and the actual shock potential would be pretty minimal.\nAccording to the story, Franklin did touch a key with his knuckle and noticed a spark, so he might have done his experimenting before the kite was actually struck, but after it had time to accumulate a fair static charge.\nAnyway, good question, there. And remember what they always warn you on TV "Don't try this at home, Kids!"
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That's depending on the domains you want to use that electricity, because there are a lot of ways to produce electricity as to consume it. In fact it is (and should be) very simple to produce electricity, as the way it is valued and used. \nThe only thing which separates the methods is  the QUANTITY of electric energy.\nIt's not the same thing to light up a flashlight bulb or LED,or to power a industrial electric engine (motor) for mechanical work. \nThe basic and most quantitative method is to use a generator (which , yes implies FERROUS ALLOYS) which have a magnetic core carbon-iron based, used as magnetic circuit (they conduct very well the magnetic field, but they are specially made to isolate the convective currents.\nThe idea is simple to use in various ways, thing is to pass one (electro)magnet in front of a coil with (without) ferrous core. You can imagine from here a lots of ways to put it or to make it work with something.\nFor instance instead of using common generator(alternators) you can take one coil and insert in side of the spirals a bar of permanent magnet and with alternative movements of back and forth you can get  electricity. The strongest the magnet, the strongest the electricity will be.\nFor easy lab electricity you can take some jucy fruits(apples,oranges, pineapples, etc) and insert in them two electrods with some distance with respect to each other, one made from zinc and other from copper. Colect the energy gathered by the potential differential, and voila:). \n\nFerroalloys generaly are giving A.C current, meaning thet's alternative and is not good for aparatus wich use Direct Current. But with this method you can get a direct current fairy easly. \nGood luck:)
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click here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford\n\nuse Wikipedia
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American. Statesman, scientist, political philosopher, author. As a philosopher known for his writings on nationality, economic matters, aphorisms published in Poor Richard's Alamanac and polemics in favor of American Independence. Involved with writing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of 1787.
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According to a great biography on Ben Franklin written by Walter Isaacson, Ben Franklin actually did this experiment, and related it to his friend Peter Collinson in a letter that BF also printed in his Pennsylvania Gazette. Here is what is fishy - BF waited 4 months after the experiment to tell his buddy and publish it, even though word of similar French experiments had also surfaced about 3 weeks before BF's publication. One reason he may have waited on this so long is because BF thought it interesting but not groundbreaking. As BF relates the experiment, he did fly a kite (with a small metal rod mounted on it) in stormy weather and noticed the dripping wet line growing unusually taught. He touched his knuckle to the key on the line and drew a spark. He does not mention actual lightning hitting the kite. What I personally think happened (and I am an electronics technician) is that his kite with the metal rod was soaking up the negative electrons present in large amounts in a storm. The ground, and our friend BF was positively charged, and when he brought his knuckle close to the key, the charges equalized  - wallah - a spark! This is the same thing that happens when you get shocked by static electricity. You can see the spark, especially a strong one, when you shuffle across the carpet and touch something metal. However, such a charge might contain a potential of tens of thousands of volts, but little current and thus be harmless, just like static electricity. Had he taken an actual lightning hit I am sure he would have mentioned it had he survived. It seems that once his account got out it was embellished by other newspeople somewhat, although the story is rooted in truth. A sidenote - BF can be considered the inventor of and a strong proponent of lightning rods. These he did much experimenting with , and is credited with saving many buildings in the New England area and elsewhere. It is interesting to note that when his lightning rods took a hit, they were usually destroyed (and these were heavy metal rods!)
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Ben Franklin - righteous dude
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isaac newton i mean sometimes he would sit on the end of his bed half dressed thinking about gravity\n\nor maybe edison he would find like 500 ways of not making a light bulb but all he would say is "i have not failed i have found 500 more ways to not make a light bulb work!"
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Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. He was the tenth son of soap maker, Josiah Franklin. Benjamin's mother was Abiah Folger, the second wife of Josiah. In all, Josiah would father 17 children.\n\nJosiah intended for Benjamin to enter into the clergy. However, Josiah could only afford to send his son to school for one year and clergymen needed years of schooling. But, as young Benjamin loved to read he had him apprenticed to his brother James, who was a printer. After helping James compose pamphlets and set type which was grueling work, 12-year-old Benjamin would sell their products in the streets.\n\nApprentice Printer\nWhen Benjamin was 15 his brother started The New England Courant the first "newspaper" in Boston. Though there were two papers in the city before James's Courant, they only reprinted news from abroad. James's paper carried articles, opinion pieces written by James's friends, advertisements, and news of ship schedules.\n\nBenjamin wanted to write for the paper too, but he knew that James would never let him. After all, Benjamin was just a lowly apprentice. So Ben began writing letters at night and signing them with the name of a fictional widow, Silence Dogood. Dogood was filled with advice and very critical of the world around her, particularly concerning the issue of how women were treated. Ben would sneak the letters under the print shop door at night so no one knew who was writing the pieces. They were a smash hit, and everyone wanted to know who was the real "Silence Dogood."\n\nAfter 16 letters, Ben confessed that he had been writing the letters all along. While James's friends thought Ben was quite precocious and funny, James scolded his brother and was very jealous of the attention paid to him.\n\nBefore long the Franklins found themselves at odds with Boston's powerful Puritan preachers, the Mathers. Smallpox was a deadly disease in those times, and the Mathers supported inoculation; the Franklins' believed inoculation only made people sicker. And while most Bostonians agreed with the Franklins, they did not like the way James made fun of the clergy, during the debate. Ultimately, James was thrown in jail for his views, and Benjamin was left to run the paper for several issues.\n\nUpon release from jail, James was not grateful to Ben for keeping the paper going. Instead he kept harassing his younger brother and administering beatings from time to time. Ben could not take it and decided to run away in 1723.\n\nEscape to Philadelphia\n\nRunning away was illegal. In early America, people all had to have a place in society and runaways did not fit in anywhere. Regardless Ben took a boat to New York where he hoped to find work as a printer. He didn't, and walked across New Jersey, finally arriving in Philadelphia via a boat ride. After debarking, he used the last of his money to buy some rolls. He was wet, disheveled, and messy when his future wife, Deborah Read, saw him on that day, October, 6, 1723. She thought him odd-looking, never dreaming that seven years later they would be married.\n\nFranklin found work as an apprentice printer. He did so well that the governor of Pennsylvania promised to set him up in business for himself if young Franklin would just go to London to buy fonts and printing equipment. Franklin did go to London, but the governor reneged on his promise and Benjamin was forced to spend several months in England doing print work.\n\nBenjamin had been living with the Read family before he left for London. Deborah Read, the very same girl who had seen young Benjamin arrive in Philadelphia, started talking marriage, with the young printer. But Ben did not think he was ready. While he was gone, she married another man.\n\nUpon returning to Philadelphia, Franklin tried his hand at helping to run a shop, but soon went back to being a printer's helper. Franklin was a better printer than the man he was working for, so
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It is NOT written in the Bible!...It came from Benjamin Franklin.
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Ben Franklin was one of the founding fathers of the of the United States.\nBen Franklin discovered electricity wa sproduced by lightening with his key on a kite experiment.\nBe Franklin in his youngr years secretly wrote Poor Richards Altmac whic became a best seller of his time.\nFrankin Was very instrumental in getting aid for the American Colonists from France an dothers during the Revolutionary war.\n\nThe   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin   gives this description of  Franklin.                       \nBenjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6] – April 17, 1790) was one of the best known Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, politician, printer, scientist, philosopher, publisher, inventor, civic activist, and diplomat. As a scientist he was a major figure in the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As a political writer and activist he, more than anyone, invented the idea of an American nation[1], and as a diplomat during the American Revolution, he secured the French alliance that made independence possible.\n\nFranklin was noted for his curiosity, his writings (popular, political and scientific), and his diversity of interests. His wise and scintillating writings are proverbial to this day. As a leader of the Enlightenment, he gained the recognition of scientists and intellectuals across Europe. An agent in London before the Revolution, and Minister to France during it, he more than anyone defined the new nation in the minds of Europe. His success in securing French military and financial aid was the turning point for American victory over Britain. He invented the lightning rod; he was an early proponent of colonial unity; historians hail him as the "First American". The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania marked Franklin's 300th birthday in January 2006 with a wide array of exhibitions, and events citing Franklin's extraordinary accomplishments throughout his illustrious career.\n\nBorn in Boston, Massachusetts to a devout Anglican tallow-maker, he was baptized at Old South Meeting House. Franklin learned printing from his older brother and became a newspaper editor, printer, and merchant in Philadelphia, becoming very wealthy. He spent many years in England and published the famous Poor Richard's Almanac and the Pennsylvania Gazette. He formed both the first public lending library and fire department in America as well as the Junto, a political discussion club.\n\nHe became a national hero in America when he spearheaded the effort to have Parliament repeal the unpopular Stamp Act. A diplomatic genius, Franklin was almost universally admired among the French as American minister to Paris, and was a major figure in the development of positive Franco-American relations. From 1775 to 1776, Franklin was Postmaster General under the Continental Congress and from 1785 to his death in 1790 was President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania. Towards the end of his life, he became one of the most prominent abolitionists.\n\nFranklin was interested in science and technology, carrying out his famous electricity experiments and inventing, in addition to his very important lightning rod, the Franklin stove, catheter, swimfins, glass harmonica, and bifocals. He also played a major role in establishing the University of Pennsylvania and Franklin and Marshall College. He was elected the first president of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, the oldest learned society in the United States, in 1769. In addition, Franklin was a noted linguist, fluent in five languages. He is typically recognized as a polymath.
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Thomas Alva Edison...to be precise
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http://science.howstuffworks.com/electricity.htm
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"Thomas Edison tried and failed nearly 2000 times to develop the carbonized cotton thread filiment for the incandescent light bulb.  When asked about it, he said, 'I didn't fail. I found out 2000 ways how not to make a light bulb.'  But he only needed to find one way to make it work."\n\nFrom National Treasure
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An electric generator is a device used to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy.\n\nThe generator is based on the principle of "electromagnetic induction" discovered in 1831 by Michael Faraday, a British scientist. Faraday discovered that if an electric conductor, like a copper wire, is moved through a magnetic field, electric current will flow (be induced) in the conductor. So the mechanical energy of the moving wire is converted into the electric energy of the current that flows in the wire.The mechanical energy needed to turn the generator comes from the brown hand crank at the front of the generator. In a hydroelectric power plant, the mechanical energy to turn the generator comes from the water turbine, which is turned by the force of falling water. The hand crank causes the red wire to spin inside a magnetic field (the blue lines). As Faraday learned, moving the wire through the magnetic field causes electric current to flow in the wire. The turning red wire is connected to a volt meter, which shows the amount of electric current that is produced. In a hydroelectric plant, the generator is connected to transmission lines that deliver the electricity to your home or business.\n\nThe controls allow you to control the speed and direction of the generator and turn portions on and off for greater clarity. You can also use the radio buttons to show a direct current, or DC generator (with commutator) or an alternating current, or AC generator (without commutator).
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The electron as a unit of charge in electrochemistry was posited by G. Johnstone Stoney in 1874, who also coined usage of "electron" in 1894. During the late 1890s a number of physicists posited that electricity could be conceived of as being made of discrete units, which were given a variety of names, but their reality had not been confirmed in a compelling way.\n\nThe discovery that the electron was a subatomic particle was made in 1897 by J.J. Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, while he was studying "cathode rays". Influenced by the work of James Clerk Maxwell, and the discovery of the X-ray, he deduced that cathode rays existed and were negatively charged "particles", which he called "corpuscles." He published his discovery in 1897.\n\nThe periodic law states that the chemical properties of elements largely repeat themselves periodically and is the foundation of the periodic table of elements. The law itself was initially explained by the atomic mass of the elements. However, as there were anomalies in the periodic table, efforts were made to find a better explanation for it. In 1913, Henry Moseley introduced the concept of the atomic number and explained the periodic law with the number of protons each element has. In the same year, Niels Bohr showed that electrons are the actual foundation of the table. In 1916, Gilbert Newton Lewis explained the chemical bonding of elements by electronic interactions.
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CONCLUSION\n\nIn the course of these experiments, you have become familiar with various concepts such as the conductivity of solutions by way of dissolved ions. you have seen redox reactions at work, and that they can be reversed by running current through the circuit. You have learned to measure potentials of reduction of various materials and to predict the voltage generated by a battery when you know it's material components. You can build a working battery from various materials, including lemons, tomatoes, potatoes, almost any fruit or vegetable. Up until now, batteries may have seemed mysterious, but now we are among the few that have a working knowledge of how and why they work. You can amaze your friends by building a battery out of almost anything, but more important than this, now the study and mastery of this subject will be easier and more meaningful\n\nsee the full answer here: