Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Kite experiment" in English language version.
As for Franklin, who doubted in 1749 that the lightning was attracted by the spikes, he wrote ... the following year: 'When the electrified clouds pass over a country, the summits of mountains and trees, the high towers, the pyramids, the masts of the ships, the chimneys, etc., like so many eminences and peaks, attract the electric fire, and the whole cloud is unloaded.'
