to the passage below and then answer the question afterwards in the same language as the passage: Passage: Franklin published a proposal for an experiment to prove that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a storm that appeared capable of becoming a lightning storm. On May 10, 1752, Thomas-François Dalibard of France conducted Franklin's experiment using a 40-foot-tall (12 m) iron rod instead of a kite, and he extracted electrical sparks from a cloud. On June 15, 1752, Franklin may possibly have conducted his well-known kite experiment in Philadelphia, successfully extracting sparks from a cloud. Franklin described the Pennsylvania experiment in the Gazette on October 19, 1752, without mentioning that he himself had performed it. Franklin described the experiment in the Pennsylvania Gazette on October 19, 1752, without mentioning that he had performed it. This account was read to the Royal Society on December 21 and printed as such in the Philosophical Transactions. Joseph Priestley published an additional account with details in his 1767 History and Present Status of Electricity.
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