No biographer before Tucker has had the temerity to say the kite experiment should be added to this list.

FORBES: Founding Fraudster?

But in his account of the kite experiment--a brief article that ran in the Oct. 19, 1752 Pennsylvania Gazette--he omits many details.

FORBES: Magazine Article

In Franklin's own account of his experiment (published in 1752), a kite fashioned from a silk handkerchief is set aloft in a storm.

FORBES: Magazine Article