Dr. Robert Allison
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first heard Jul 2026
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His experiments are being published in Europe, not here, but in Europe, where they're called the Philadelphia Experiments, because this guy in Philadelphia, which to Europe was the edge of the universe, was coming up with these things that then people in Europe are replicating.
seeing how they work.
So Franklin gets honorary degrees in Europe when the famous experiment with electricity and the clouds is published.
Immanuel Kant calls Franklin the Prometheus of the modern age.
It's really hard to overstate how important Franklin was, and actually much better known as a natural philosopher in Europe than he was in the American colonies.
That's right, yes.
So Franklin had written this protocol.
In one of his books, it's published in Europe, says if you put a sentry box on top of a church steeple and you ran an iron pipe up from that and you have a guy in the sentry box with a Leyden jar.
And Franklin also coined the term Leyden jar for something that a Dr. Muschenbrook had invented in the city of Leyden.
He then can collect the electrical fluid if in fact the clouds contain electricity.
The problem Franklin had in doing this experiment in Philadelphia, there are no church steeples.
You grew up in Boston where there were plenty of church steeples.
The pastor of Christ Church in Philadelphia, they're building a new church, probably was pleased when Benjamin Franklin came to make a donation and probably was puzzled why Franklin said the steeple should be at least 150 feet tall.
So he doesn't do it, but in France there are church steeples, in Germany there are church steeples, in England there are.
They're doing this in the summer after Franklin publishes this.
and Franklin doesn't know this, that all over Europe they're proving him right, that the clouds do contain the electrical fluid.
So he wants to, he doesn't know they've done it, so he wants to see, and this is why he thinks, maybe if I fly a kite.
So he and his son, his son William, who is in his 20s, I know the representation we see, in fact, on the Franklin statue in downtown Boston, it's young boy William, but it's actually a
23-year-old guy and his middle-aged father who were out there trying to fly a kite.
And Frank, they're flying the kite.
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