Yes, that Benjamin Franklin. The Boston-born founding father gained fame as a statesman, newspaper guy and public intellectual — and as the inventor of lightning rods, bifocals, the glass ...

Though home computers, media units, land-line telephones, cable lines and motorized appliances can all benefit from ...

An apparent lightning strike which ignited a blaze destroying a home in Winifred was a sobering reminder that we are living in the lightning capital of the United States. Len Hathaway looks at the ...

Lightning protection systems, such as rods and surge protectors ... From the legendary experiments of Benjamin Franklin to infamous fires that destroyed entire towns, lightning is woven into ...

A Lightning Rod in Grow a Garden is a useful, albeit a little rare, piece of equipment you can use to influence how a specific type of weather behaves in your garden. As you probably know ...

While some ways exist to reduce their impact such as lightning rods, these passive systems can only be deployed in select locations and cannot prevent the build-up of the charge that leads up to ...

Saksena isn't taking any risks. He installed lightning rods on the top of his home after the last strike, and so did many of his neighbors to prevent future damage. Saksena hopes others who haven ...

FRANKLIN Darwin Benjamin (Ben), Age 95, went peacefully with our Lord on Sunday, April 20, 2025, while at home and surrounded by his family. Ben was born on May 22, 1929, at University Hospital ...

A question about “the state of sports” led to a discussion about the NIL. The lightning rod moment was when I asked Stephen A. if he was serious about running for President. His answer took ...

In 1977 there was a mobile home off Route 340 near Dooms strangely covered with 12 lightning rods, affixed to all four corners of the trailer, on the TV antenna, the electric meter and in six of the ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican firebrand and ally of President Donald Trump, is passing on the Senate race in Georgia. “I’m not running,” she said in a lengthy post on social ...