quote send more seats, collinson request in a letter of march 4 -- march 14, 1736. on the specimens went to oxford. when i sent back with the names, you shall hear from me. by contrast franklin and his colleagues known as the philadelphia electricians, force the europeans to make room for american suspects let's take a look at what they did. they confirm the identity of electricity and lighting. the notion that lightning in the sky and electricity produced in the laboratory or in the lecture hall were one and the same have been taking around for quite some time. the great french expert have noted that sparrows electrocute in the lab, cut them open and look at the innards, resembled the innards of a man who had been struck by the lg signs. the sound of a lightning strike seemed to mimic a much greater bond of course the snap of electricity from a capacitor or other device. but it was franklin and the americans who really made a breakthrough by coming with a practical means to verify this notion. they also fed the plausible explanation of the leyden jar which was a si