Show genesis of the lightning rod the first lightning rod was not 0 constructed I 1 liy T franklin 0 nor set up tip in america but by a monk at soul beut tenberg bohemia named bained procop Irol iop delwisch Dil Dili wisch ilis his apparatus was made and put together during the spring and summer of the year 1751 1 and was first set vp in th the garden of the cure of Pren ditz moravia on june 15 of the year above named rhe rod attained as much distinction as that later made by Yr 1 anklin kind and was the cause of the inventor being presented with much money money and large estates his enemies cla jailed inird that the rod was tile the cause ot of the great drought of 1757 1758 and 1759 1739 and upon the matter being reported to vienna it was ordered to ic be taken down |