Which one's the turkey ?

 
This year marks the 300th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth.
 
Franklin, the tenth son of a soap maker, received very little formal schooling growing up. He was later apprenticed to his older brother, a printer, which gave him the opportunity to read books. Franklin was always curious and eager to learn. This curiosity drove his experiments with electricity, which made him famous as a scientist.

In December 1750, Franklin learned one lesson the hard way, when he shocked himself while trying to electrocute a holiday turkey.
 
Franklin believed electrocuting the turkey made it uncommonly tender. 
  
  
full at:
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200612/history.cfm

 

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