Entry 4 title significance

“The Kite experiment”

The literal meaning of this title relates to his famous experiment in which Benjamin Franklin was trying to prove that lightning was in fact electricity.  Benjamin franklin proposed that if he were to fly a kite during a thunderstorm with a key at the end that, when lightning struck the kite the key would gather an electrical charge thus proving his theory that lightning is really just static electricity on a much larger scale.  This experiment was never actually preformed due to safety reasons it was and still is one of the most well-known scientific experiments in America’s history.  This is such a well-known experiment because it was Benjamin franklin who proposed the idea and because it made a great deal of sense and had much information to back it up which is why so many people believed it would work and why it is so popular throughout America’s history.

The figurative meaning of this title is it talks about “the kite experiment” which is a very famous experiment performed by Benjamin Franklin that is known worldwide as a very iconic experiment from which many famous sayings have been created such as “go fly a kite” which is an allusion to Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment although it does not share the same meaning it is still derived from the title and relates to it.  This tile is also talking about the idea of how even if something is just a theory it should still be worked at and researched this relates to the title.  Even though the experiment itself was never actually preformed later on other people looked into his theory and created new ideas, on how to prove this theory some of these worked and some failed but now everyone knows that Benjamin Franklin was correct that lightning is in fact electricity, the theory eventually became a fact and then from that many things came from it an example is the idea of how to power things using the charge lightning gives off by gathering it with a similar experiment.  This was another theory created later by other scientists this idea had lots of support and it seemed plausible in theory but every time it was attempted it seemed to fail so eventually it lost support and the idea was abandoned.  Other similar ideas were thought of but none ever really came into fruition and so the idea of power by electricity was essentially abandoned.