In an age of computers and lasers, Morris Rosenthal`s lightning rod business, using the basic principles discovered by Benjamin Franklin, is crackling. Rosenthal is president of the 117-year-old St.

As we stood before the rich carvings, the bas-relief, and mediæval tracery of an old cathedral in a European city, our eyes wandered upward, beyond the gargoyles, beyond the fretwork, and finally ...

Ben Franklin’s brainchild, the lightning rod, set a standard for protecting buildings for 270 years, but now a mushroom-shaped alternative – the lightning suppressor – has emerged. Where a lightning ...

If you love American history, you’re already a fan of Benjamin Franklin. He is said to have invented the rocking chair, bifocals, a musical instrument called the glass armonica, the odometer and, of ...

Though lightning is supposed never to strike twice in the same place, and might be supposed by now to have struck each & every place in the U. S., the U. S. lightning rod industry continues. According ...

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 ...