Bolt of Lightning
Also known as Bolt of Lightning...A Memorial to Benjamin Franklin
1984
Contemporary
public art
At the western approach to the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Isamu Noguchi's stainless steel sculpture rises 101 feet, conflating the kite, lightning bolt, and key from Benjamin Franklin's 1752 electricity experiment into a single…
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- 1984
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