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Benjamin Franklin Once Electrocuted Some Turkeys For Science…And For Dinner
Submitted by Melinda L. Secor on Sun, 2014-11-30 02:00
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"Benjamin Franklin's famous kite-flying experiment, conducted in 1752, was not his first study with electricity. Before that, he tested electric shocks on some farmyard birds. As he wrote to botanist Peter Collinson in a letter dated 1749, 'A Turky is to be killed for our Dinners by the Electrical Shock; and roasted by the electrical Jack, before a Fire kindled by the Electrified Bottle'"
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