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Title: Good stories for great birthdays, arranged for story-telling and reading aloud and for the children's own reading
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Olcott, Frances Jenkins
Subjects: Children's literature Birthdays
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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of electricity was not understood.People did not know that lightning was due tothe presence of electricity in nature. Benjamin Franklin, who was keen and in-quisitive, made scientific experiments with theLeyden jar and with simple machines whichproduced electricity by friction. Rediscoveredthat in certain ways, the action of electricity andlightning was the same, and he observed thatelectric fluid might be conducted along a pack-string. So he determined to prove that electricityand lightning were the same, by drawing light-ning down from the clouds along a pack-string.He used a silk kite, with a sharp-pointed wirefastened to its framework, and a silk ribbon tiedto the end of the kite-string holding a metal keyin place. He secretly flew the kite during a June thunder-storm. And as he saw the kite-string stiffen in astrange way, he eagerly laid his hand against thekey. Instantly he felt a shock of electricity passthrough him. He had made one of the mostimportant discoveries of all ages!
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FRANKLIN AND THE KITE EXPERIMENT THE RISING SUN 171 His discovery was soon known throughout theworld. Men made other experiments, and intime invented the wonderful electrical machinesand devices which we enjoy to-day. THE RISING SUN When the Federal Constitutional Conventionmet at Philadelphia, General Washington wasunanimously made President of the Convention.He took the chair with diffidence. He assuredthe members that he was not used to such asituation, that he was embarrassed, and he hopedthey would excuse his errors. And in whatmasterly fashion he conducted the convention,history shows. Behind his chair was painted a picture of thesun. After the debates were over and the Consti-tution was adopted, Benjamin FrankHn, who hadjust signed the immortal Document, turned tosome of the members. He drew their attentionto the sun behind General Washingtons chair. I have often and often, said Franklin, inthe course of the session and the vicissitudes ofmy hopes and fears as to its issue, loo

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