Les Expériences et observations sur l'électricité sont l'oeuvre scientifique majeure de Franklin et un des textes de physique les plus importants du XVIIIe siècle. Le physicien américain y développe sa théorie du fluide unique qui lui permet de prouver, grâce à ses expériences sur la bouteille de Leyde, la foudre, les paratonnerres et le cerf-volant, la nature positive et négative d'une charge électrique, autrement dit que le courant électrique se compose de charges induites.
L'édition française, autorisée par Franklin, se compose de lettres traduites par François Dalibard, qui répéta les expériences de Philadelphie pour montrer la nature électrique de la foudre.
Benjamin Franklin was an important conservative figure in the American Restoration Movement, especially as the leading antebellum conservative in the northern United States branch of the movement. He is notable as the early and lifelong mentor of Daniel Sommer, whose support of the 1889 Sand Creek Declaration set in motion events which led to the formal division of the Churches of Christ from the Disciples of Christ in 1906.
According to contemporary biographies "His early religious training was according to the Methodist faith, though he never belonged to any church until he united with the Disciples."
In 1856, Franklin began to publish the ultra-conservative American Christian Review, which he published until his death in 1878. Its influence, initially considerable, was said to have waned following the American Civil War. Franklin undertook a rigorous program of publication correspondence, and traveling lectures which took him to "many" U. S. states and Canada.
Franklin's last move was to Anderson, Indiana, where he lived from 1864 until his death.
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