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Bolt of fate
Benjamin Franklin and his electric kite hoax
By Tucker, Tom
- ISBN
- 978-1-89162-070-6
- Publisher
- New York : PublicAffairs, c2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on May 15, 2003
According to Tucker, who writes on the history of invention, Benjamin Franklin's"multifaceted genius" had a hidden side:"He was also a splendid master of the hoax." And, notes Tucker, Franklin had reason to perpetrate a hoax on the scientific establishment, then embodied in Britain's Royal Society, where the colonial printer was not tak...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
