I better not catch you reproducing that one, by the way. Franklin may have invented the lightning rod with that stunt, and sure, it paved the way for a lot of other innovations to come, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a patently stupid thing to do.

[Figures Miss American History would gravitate toward Franklin, though. Hmph.]

The thing you're building is a contraption that a guy named Faraday came up with. And the light bulb you're using was pioneered by Edison. The point is, science doesn't happen in a vacuum. It's full of people looking at what everybody else is doing and saying, "I wonder what'll happen if I do this."