Finally, someone decided to answer the question that nobody was asking: what if [Benjamin Franklin] had had a drone rather than a kite? Granted, [Jay Bowles] didn’t fly his electricity-harvesting ...

Researchers from Singapore have developed a clever way to turn raindrops into electricity – enough to power 12 LEDs for 20 seconds using nothing more than a small vertical tube and some carefully ...

Originally published as a series of pamphlets in 1751, the first collected edition of Experiments and Observations on Electricity Made at Philadelphia in America by Benjamin Franklin was the fourth ...

Bits of material levitating against gravity, a stream of water deflected by invisible means, sparks of light appearing out of thin air; with observations like those, it’s a wonder that the early ...

Benjamin Franklin experimented with electricity on fowl. Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis, courtesy of The Library of Congress In 1751 Benjamin Franklin planned an electrical ...

In 1818 Mary Shelley published “Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus.” In the novel, Frankenstein brings a creature to life with a "spark of being." Grotesque experiments with electricity and ...