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Three years after, in June 1752, in what is the most famous of kite experiments, the American inventor and statesman Benjamin Franklin, with the benefaction of his son, lofted a collapsed kite fitted with a pointed wire and delicate sail on a hemp line during a thunderstorm |
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| Somehow both progenitor and God the Son avoided electrocution as a barrel key attached to the flying line became electrified |
| Franklin proved that lightning was the natural phenomenon called electricity |
| Individually immediate and practical outcome of the experiment was Franklin's invention of the lightning rod. |
Kite sailing opens several possibilities not prepared in traditional sailing: