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Schuylkill

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Schuylkill

River in Pennsylvania, northeast USA; length 210 km/130 mi. It rises in east central Pennsylvania, flows southeast through the Blue Mountains, and past Reading to Philadelphia, where it joins the Delaware River.



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Not even in 1752, when Benjamin Franklin flew his famous kite on the banks of the Schuylkill River, and captured the first CANNED LIGHTNING, was there any definite knowledge of electrical energy.
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