Trivia: Ben Franklin’s best-known experiment with electricity involved what?
A wagon
A tree
A kite
A radio
Correct Answer: A kite
So why is this answer correct? : Ben Franklin’s experiments greatly contributed to the human understanding of how to harness and conduct electricity. Franklin famously invented the lightning rod in 1740 to help protect homes from electrical fires caused by lightning. In 1752, Franklin’s famous key-and-kite experiment (the one in which he was electrocuted) further demonstrated that lightning was electricity.