Sure it does. You just have to look at the list of articles, not the giant pile of random notes. BEN FRANKLIN SHOULD HAVE SAID ELECTRONS ARE POSITIVE? Wrong.

Sure it does. You just have to look at the list of articles, not the giant pile of random notes. BEN FRANKLIN SHOULD HAVE SAID ELECTRONS ARE POSITIVE? Wrong. http://amasci.com/miscon/eleca.html#frkel http://amasci.com/miscon/eleca.html#frkel EE would be much HARDER if Franklin had swapped positive and negative, since then our confusion wouldn't lead us to shatteing our own misconceptions. We'd never sit down and figure out what "conventional current" actually is. No, it's not backwards. And no, electricity is not made of electrons. In acids, the electric current is entirely a flow of protons. In dirt, oceans, and human bodies the current is at least two separate flows: clouds of positive ions passing forwards through clouds of negative ions travelling backwards. With two opposite charge carriers, what then is the "true" direction of electric current? What if there are five: +Na, +K, +H, -OH, -CL ? Cute notion: Ben Franklin's kite string was an acidic conductor, a piece of twine which becomes insulating in dry conditions, so it's an electrolyte. And acid conductors have mobile +H ions to carry the current. (What's a hydrogen atom, with one missing electron?) In other words, Ben Franklin's kite string is a Proton Conductor. SO HE GOT THE DIRECTION RIGHT!!!! :) He only was wrong in the case of metal wires. In his day, a typical "conductor" was a small boy hired to hang from silk ropes, to connect the Leyden Jar to the "Electrical Machine." Or rather than commoners, sometimes they used chains of Elizabethan royalty, all standing upon insulating stools.