a@m_header2_2_500.jpg


scientific_kite_flying.gif

Eye in the Sky - Scientific Kite Flying

The Century; a popular quarterly, Volume 54, Issue 1
May 1897, The Century Company, New York

The May 1897 issue of The Century carried three articles by the then leading US scientific kite researchers, Scientific Kite-Flying, with Special Reference to the Blue Hill Experiments by J. B. Millet, Experiments with Kites by Hugh D. Wise and Photographing from Kites by William A. Eddy. There are however, multiple text and image references to Lawrence Hargrave and his box kites in all articles.

These pages were originally prepared by the Making of America Project at Cornell University, USA. eMail: MOA-L@cornell.edu


Illustration Caption: 'Framework of the Largest Cellular Kite
(Lieutenant Wise's Modified Hargrave Kite)



To download an A4 page (approx ea. 250-350kb) simply click on the matching thumbnail image

       

Title Page

p. 76 [Millet]

p. 77

p. 78

p. 79

p. 80

p. 81

p. 82

p. 83

p. 84

p. 85

p. 86

p. 87

p. 88 [Wise]

p. 89

p. 90

p. 91

p. 92

p. 93

p. 94

p. 95

p. 96 [Eddy]

p. 97

p. 98

p. 99

p. 100

p. 101 [End]

 
       

Return to Aerobotics Index

The term Aerobotics is © Copyright 1999, CTIE


HOME

© Copyright 1999 CTIE - All Rights Reserved - Caution
Created and maintained by russell.naughton@eng.monash.edu.au
Last updated November 17, 2001