Benjamin Franklin in Podcasts
personA historical figure who hypothesized about bioluminescence being caused by electricity and lightning in the ocean.
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Short Wave
Solving A Centuries Old Maritime Mystery
Yeah, I have a couple different emotions about that actually. Ben Franklin actually has a letter he wrote to a friend of his in the 1750s where he was complaining how he had carried all these experiments to prove that it was actually electricity and lightning in the ocean causing bioluminescence, but actually he has come to the conclusion that it's just some unknown living being we can't see.