Stealing God's Thunder : Benjamin Franklin's Lighning rod and the Invention of America
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Call Number: BOCD 921 Franklin, Benjamin
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Unabridged.
"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
Compact disc.
Narrated by David Chandler.
Franklin, more often viewed as a statesman and founding father, was also a man of science. Among his many inventions, it was the lightning rod--Franlkin's attempt to control the electricity of the heavens--that caused the greatest controversy. In a time where everything from weather to illness was blamed on sin, his device brought questions: "Did humanity have the right to defend itself...? If so, how was such a new insight... to be assimilated [with] faith?"
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PUBLISHED
Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, 2006.
Year Published: 2006
Description: 8 sound discs (9 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1419361813
9781419361814
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Chandler, David, actor.
SUBJECTS
Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790.
Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790 -- Physics.
Electricity -- History -- 18th century.
Lightning -- History -- 18th century.
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Audiobooks.