BEN FRANKLIN AND HIS FABLED KITE EXPERIMENT.


AMES, NATHANIEL. An Astronomical DIARY: or an Almanack for the Year of our Lord CHRIST, 1755.... Boston: J. Draper, [1754]. 16 pp. 8vo (158 x 97 mm). Bound with string. Pages toned and brittle, perforactions at left margin.On p 14, above the details for December, the almanac reads: "WHO 'ere presum'd, till FRANKLIN led the Way, / to climb the amazing Highth of Heaven, / And rob the Sky of it's tremendous Thunder; / And leave the Clouds, with Winds and Tempests fraught, / But Breath enough to shake the trembling Trees, / And rock the Birds that perch upon their Boughs." Franklin conducted his famous experiment using a kite in a storm in June of 1752.