Bolt of Lightning

Also known as Bolt of Lightning...A Memorial to Benjamin Franklin

Year

1984

Type

public art

Rising 101 feet at the western approach to the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Isamu Noguchi's stainless steel sculpture conflates the kite, lightning bolt, and key from Franklin's famous 1752 experiment into a single freestanding form. Noguchi f …

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