• Question: how do we know that lightning contains electricity?

    Asked by BOB to Kate, Pip, Reka on 18 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Reka Nagy

      Reka Nagy answered on 18 Nov 2016:

      A man called Benjamin Franklin proved that lightning contains electricity by using a kite that got hit by lightning, and seeing that it conducted electricity that could be trapped – inventing the lightning rod in the process.

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