{"id":12549,"date":"2013-08-14T14:26:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T14:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=12549"},"modified":"2013-08-14T17:11:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T17:11:19","slug":"baylor-prof-separates-fact-from-fiction-on-two-well-known-historical-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2013\/08\/baylor-prof-separates-fact-from-fiction-on-two-well-known-historical-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor prof separates fact from fiction on two well-known historical figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"dit-video-embed\" src=\"http:\/\/snagplayer.video.dp.discovery.com\/833568\/snag-it-player.htm?auto=no\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>America&#8217;s history is filled with tales about ingenious or heroic actions by men and women who made significant advancements in science and technology. Two of these well-worn narratives concern Thomas Edison&#8217;s status as the inventor of the light bulb and Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s &#8220;discovery&#8221; of electricity with his famous kite experiment. But how much of what we know about these two stories is really true?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/business.baylor.edu\/directory\/?id=Blaine_McCormick\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Blaine McCormick<\/a>, an associate professor of management in Baylor\u2019s Hankamer School of Business, recently appeared on the Military Channel program &#8220;America: Facts vs. Fiction,&#8221; where he discussed the popular understanding of these stories and suggested that what many of us learned in our history classes may not be completely accurate.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"dit-video-embed\" src=\"http:\/\/snagplayer.video.dp.discovery.com\/833567\/snag-it-player.htm?auto=no\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Dr. McCormick!<\/p>\n<p><em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.baylor.edu\/researchtracks\/2013\/08\/05\/video-baylor-professor-separates-fact-from-fiction-on-two-well-known-historical-figures\/\" target=\"_blank\">This post<\/a> originally appeared on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.baylor.edu\/researchtracks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Research Tracks<\/a><\/strong>, a blog from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research at Baylor University. Please visit it for more information on Baylor&#8217;s research efforts.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/mccormick-aug13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12625\" title=\"mccormick-aug13\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/mccormick-aug13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"276\" style=\"display:none\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/mccormick-aug13.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/mccormick-aug13-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/americafactsvsfiction-aug13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12626\" title=\"americafactsvsfiction-aug13\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/americafactsvsfiction-aug13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"278\" style=\"display:none\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/americafactsvsfiction-aug13.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/americafactsvsfiction-aug13-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s history is filled with tales about ingenious or heroic actions by men and women who made significant advancements in science and technology. Two of these well-worn narratives concern Thomas Edison&#8217;s status as the inventor of the light bulb and Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s &#8220;discovery&#8221; of electricity with his famous kite experiment. But how much of what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}