Ben says "Charge it!", or, Hoagie learns that AC/DC isn't just a band name

Now Hoagie was ready to rock and roll. He took the battery ingredients down to the lab to Red and Red made the battery, leaving it on a convenient shelf for Hoagie to steal.

But there was still the question of how to charge the battery. Since Red was unavailable ("Hey, dude, how do I get the juice to this bogus battery I ripped from you?" seemed unlikely even to Hoagie), it finally occurred to Hoagie to check with the only other eighteenth century scientist he knew – Ben Franklin.

Hoagie realized that the kite was the...