Talk:Kite Dragon/@comment-24901998-20140614152405/@comment-5835936-20140615113528

There is no concrete date for the discovery of electricity, because various different parts of it have been known since the ancient Greeks, but what i think Wolfie means is Benjamin Franklin's experiment with flying a kite in a lightning storm, which he designed, but probably never actually conducted (heh, puns) because he was well aware that it was ridiculously dangerous. He did however conduct a lot of other experiments involving electricty and was in correspondence with people that laid the groundwork for the big developments in electricity at the time. I personally think this dragon is just a general "summer" dragon, like Butterfly is generally spring/early summer. There are definitely references to Benjamin Franklin and experiments with kites, but at the most I think they chose this date to fall within the broad range of time that people supposedly conducted those experiments (see my reply to Bane Cane below).