C. F. Marvin
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 23, Issue 11 (November
1895) pp. 418-420
Link:
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/023/mwr-023-11-0418.pdf
Description of the Potter diamond-cell kite. (One
plate)
The description is "given with great minuteness".
SCIENTIFIC KITE - FLYING
Cleveland Moffet
McClure's Magazine
March, 1896. Volume VI. No. 4
Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14319/14319-h/14319-h.htm
(Click on link and go to pages: 379 -
392)
State of the art article for the public. (With
illustrations.)
-
How to Make a Scientific - Kite.
-
How to Send up a Kite.
-
Runaway Tandems.
-
The Lifting Power of Kites.
-
The Meteorological Use of Kites.
-
The Highest Flight Ever Made by a
Kite.
-
Drawing Down Electricity by a Kite -
String.
-
The Use of Kites in Photography.
-
Possible Use of Kites in War.
"Considering the important
offices of which it has already been proved capable, and the
possibility which these suggest of many other practical
applications, it is clear that the kite is no longer to be regarded
as simply a toy. And this, in turn, suggests anew the familiar truth
that, after all, nothing in this world is of small
consequence."
KITE EXPERIMENTS AT THE WEATHER BUREAU
C. F. Marvin
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 24, Issue 4 (April 1896)
pp. 113-123
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/024/mwr-024-04-0113.pdf
State of the art article on Kite Experiments. Part I.
(Two plates)
-
On scientific methods in kite
investigations.
-
The Weather Bureau works.
-
Kite strings.
"In view of the rapidly increasing interest in this
subject it seems proper to lay before the cooperating observers of
the Weather Bureau the results that have been attained during the
past few months, in order that those interested in the subject may
in conducting their own experiments, profit by our
experience."
KITE EXPERIMENTS AT THE WEATHER BUREAU
C. F. Marvin
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 24, Issue 5 (May 1896) pp.
156-166
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/024/mwr-024-05-0156b.pdf
State of the art article on Kite Experiments. Part II.
(Four plates)
-
General remarks on single plane and cellular
kites.
-
Analysis of forces acting on kites.
-
Pull.
-
Lift.
-
Drift.
-
Resolution and combination of forces.
-
Wind pressure on plane surfaces.
-
Center of pressure.
-
Edge pressures.
-
Resultant pressure.
-
Pressure on thin, curved surfaces.
-
Effect of waviness, or fluttering.
-
Whirls, or eddy effects.
-
Lateral stability.
-
Longitudinal stability.
-
Diagram of forces.
-
Conditions that modify the angular elevation of the
kite.
-
Forms and constructions of the Weather Bureau
Kites.
-
Improved construction.
-
Rectangular frames.
-
The cell.
-
Longitudinal truss.
-
Advantages of construction.
-
How further improved.
-
General remarks on constructions.
"These operations
take some time and require some skills, but when a cell is completed
you have something that can stand the
wind."
KITE EXPERIMENTS AT THE WEATHER BUREAU
C. F. Marvin
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 24, Issue 6 (June 1896)
pp. 199-206
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/024/mwr-024-06-0199.pdf
State of the art article on Kite Experiments. Part III.
(One plate)
-
General remarks on constructions.
(Continued.)
-
Characteristics of wing surfaces.
-
Kites with wing-like surfaces.
-
Improved kite with arched surfaces.
-
Modified longitudinal truss.
-
Other improved kites.
-
Points of advantage.
-
The Weather Bureau Kites.
-
Explanation.
-
Bridle.
-
True and apparent angle of incidence.
-
Relative steadiness of kites.
-
Relative weights of kites.
-
On the choice of materials in the construction of
kites.
-
(1) What materials are best for kites?
-
a. Tensile strength.
-
b. Crushing strength.
-
(2) How given materials are best
employed.
"The most perfectly
made kite will never remain steady in one position for more than a
few seconds at a time, but will always move about more or less, now
rising or falling, swaying now to the right or left , now steady for
a moment, etc. These constant changes in its position are directly
caused by corresponding changes in the motion of the air
itself."
"The experienced
kite flyer, however, is soon able to perceive when the motions are
different from those caused by the usual variations of the wind, and
therefore that something is wrong with the
kite."
PARAKITES
(Newly added,
01.2010)
A
Treatise
on
the
Making
and
Flying
of
Tailless
Kites
For
Scientific
Purposes
and
for
Recreation
G.T. Woglom
Book published by: G.
P.
PUTNAM’S
SONS,
NEW
YORK
LONDON
(June 1896)
Link: http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924024020707
Great technical, sometimes poetic book about Eddy
Kites, written before, or at the same time W.A. Eddy invented ‘his
one’.
"THE
purpose
of
this
treatise
is
to
place
before the public the result
of
the investigations and
of
the
practical
experience
of
the writer in
the
designing
and
the
construction
of
tailless
kites, or
"parakites," and
in
the
perfection
of
methods
for
the
flying
of
these
in
various conditions
of
the atmosphere. "
“Section
5,
Personal
supervision.—The
writer's
parakites,
appliances
and
apparatus
are
all
made
by
himself
as
much
as
practicable,
or
under
his
immediate
supervision
by
skilled
artizans
in
his business
employ,
for
he
has
faith
in the
aphorism
attributed
to Benjamin
Franklin,
the
pioneer
scientific
kite-flier,
that
"
if
a
thing
is
to
be
done,
send
;
if
it
is to
be
well
done,
do
it
yourself"
KITES IN MONTANA
A. B. Coe
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 24, Issue 7 (July 1896)
pp. 237-237
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/024/mwr-024-07-0237a.pdf
"...we take the following notes, and hope that others
may be led to pursue similar studies with the same enthusiasm
."
KITE EXPERIMENTS AT THE WEATHER BUREAU
C. F. Marvin
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 24, Issue 7 (July 1896)
pp. 238-255
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/024/mwr-024-07-0238.pdf
State of the art article on Kite Experiments. Part IV.
(Four plates)
-
Efficiency.
-
Efficiency of kites.
-
Arched surfaces.
-
Pull.
-
Efficiency - how determined.
-
Incidence scale.
-
Inclination of wire at reel.
-
Probable errors.
-
General remarks on efficiency.
-
Weight and efficiency.
-
Incidence and efficiency.
-
Ascending air currents.
-
Causes of small efficiency.
-
General observation of kites.
-
Measurement of the tension of the
wire.
-
Dynamograph.
-
Measurements of wind velocity.
-
Measurements of angular elevation.
-
Nephoscope.
-
Sextant.
-
Resolution of forces.
-
Results.
-
Diagram of forces.
-
Bridle adjustment.
-
Steadiness in position.
-
Changes of horizontal directions.
-
Variations of force and direction.
-
Lofty ascensions.
-
Properties of the catenary.
-
The fundamental equations.
-
Maximum height.
-
Angular elevation at maximum height.
-
Isoclinals.
-
Isoclinals for practical cases.
-
Equitensals.
-
Incidence for maximum altitude.
-
Ideal and actual kite.
-
Best incidence - ideal case.
-
Best incidence for actual kite.
-
Maximum sag and slack of wire.
-
Partial ascensions.
-
General equations for practical
ascensions.
-
Observed angular elavation.
-
Slack in the wire in partial
ascensions.
-
Angles of sag in partial ascensions.
-
Altitude as dependent upon pull.
-
Kites in tandem.
-
General equations for tandems.
-
Best utilization of a given pull.
-
Best utilization of a given line.
-
The wind-impressed catenary.
"The adjustment of the bridle of the kite is not a
matter of so much mystery and importance as is often supposed to be
the case."
"Unfortunately, however, we can not fly kites with wire having no weight
and against which the wind will not press."
"With a certain amount of wire out, the portion next
the reel becomes horizontal, and the limit of altitude is then
reached. The kite can lift no more
line."
EXPERIMENTS WITH
KITES
AT SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
W. H. Hammon Monthly Weather Review
Volume 24, Issue 8 (August 1896)
pp. 288-289
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/024/mwr-024-08-0288.pdf
"...over forty kites of the Eddy pattern were
constructed."
"A slight inaccuracy in a long stick has less
proportional effect than in a shorter one."
KITE EXPERIMENTS AT THE BLUE HILL METEOROLOGICAL
OBSERVATORY
S. P. Fergusson
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 24, Issue 9 (September
1896) pp. 323-327
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/024/mwr-024-09-0323.pdf
"In July and August, 1894, Mr. William A. Eddy, of New
York, who had been very successful in reaching great altitudes with
kites of the so-called "Malay" type, spent two weeks at Blue Hill
for the purpose of employing the kites designed by him in
meteorological observations."
A HIGH KITE ASCENSION AT BLUE HILL
S. P. Fergusson
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 24, Issue 9 (September
1896) pp. 327-328
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/024/mwr-024-09-0327.pdf
ESPY AND THE FRANKLIN KITE CLUB
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 24, Issue 9 (September
1896) pp. 334-334
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/024/mwr-024-09-0334a.pdf
A PRIZE FOR KITE FLYERS (The "Chanute
Prize")
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 24, Issue 10 (October
1896) pp. 374-375
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/024/mwr-024-10-0374d.pdf
Announcement of the "Chanute Prize". See also the winning
monograph: "The Mechanics and Equilibrium of
Kites".
THE FRANKLIN KITE CLUB
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 24, Issue 11 (November
1896) pp. 416-416
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/024/mwr-024-11-0416a.pdf
THE USE OF THE KITE IN METEOROLOGY
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 24, Issue 11 (November
1896) pp. 416-417
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/024/mwr-024-11-0416b.pdf
SIR ISAAC NEWTON AND HIS KITES
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 24, Issue 12 (December
1896) pp. 458-459
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/024/mwr-024-11-0416b.pdf
EXPLORATIONS OF THE AIR BY MEANS OF
KITES
S. P. Fergusson
Annals of The Astronomical Observatory of Harvard
College - Observations made at the Blue Hill Meteorological
Observatory
Volume XLII. - Part I, Appendix B. (1896) pp.
41-75
Link
(Click on link and go to pages: 41 -
75)
State of the art article on Kite
Experiments.
-
Kites and Instruments.
-
Methods of Constructing and Flying
Kites.
-
Conditions under which Experiments were
made.
-
Materials used in Framing
Kites.
-
Materials for Covering
Kites.
-
Windlass.
-
Dynamometer.
-
Instruments for Measuring
Angles.
-
Kites.
-
Method of Testing Kites.
-
Flights with the
Meteorograph.
-
Meteorographs.
"The lack of
durability and the great cost make it doubtful if there is much to
be gained by using silk; nainsook is slightly heavier, but has the
advantages of greater durability and smaller cost, which more than
compensate for the greater
weight."
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE KITE BY EUROPEAN
SCIENTISTS
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 25, Issue 2 (February
1897) pp. 58-61
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/025/mwr-025-02-0058.pdf
"As for silk or linen kites, they
require a good deal of wind to be raised; and then they are not so
cheap, or so easy to be made, as paper kites are. The string
sometimes breaks, and the kite is lost or broken; for which reason
these kites should be made as cheap and simple as
possible."
THE EARLY USE OF WIRE IN KITE FLYING
S. P. Fergusson
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 25, Issue 4 (April 1897)
pp. 135-135
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/025/mwr-025-04-0135a.pdf
". he used to fly kites with
copper wire a mile long; that was 60 years ago. For fun he used to
touch the head of the donkey with the wire, and of course the donkey
knew about it. Kite flying has been practiced in England with iron
wire, steel wire, and copper wire. Hoping this will satisfy our
American friends who think that kite flying with wire is of recent
introduction, I am, etc. John
Pyrah"
XIV The Kite
Considered as an Instrument of Value
James Means
The Aeronautical Annual
No. 2, 1896
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117)
State of the art article on Kites. (Four illustrations,
one plate)
XV The Malay
Kite
J.B. Millet
The Aeronautical Annual
No. 2, 1896
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126)
(One illustration)
XVI Some
Experiments with Hargrave Kites
J.B. Millet
The Aeronautical Annual
No. 2, 1896
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132)
(One plate)
XVII Work on
the Great Diamond
Charles H. Lamson
The Aeronautical Annual
No. 2, 1896
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137)
Lamson about his: (Three plates)
-
Modified Hargrave Kite
-
Multiplane Folding Kite
XVIII
Materials Used in Kite Experiments at Blue Hill
Observatory
S.P. Fergusson
The Aeronautical Annual
No. 2, 1896
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140)
XXI
Editorial
James Means
The Aeronautical Annual
No. 2, 1896
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157)
State of the art articles on Kite Experiments. (Three
illustrations)
-
The Australian Kite-Designer.
-
The Tailles Kite.
-
Etc.
"SAID Mrs. Lecks to Mrs. Aleshine, "Black stockings
for sharks." It's a poor rule that won't work any way you want it
to, therefore it may be added, Black cloth for kites. You
can see a black hawk farther than you can a white swan. Think, too,
of the sensitive plate which is the retina of the
camera."
THE MECHANICS AND EQUILIBRIUM OF KITES (The
"Chanute Prize")
C. F. Marvin
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 25, Issue 4 (April 1897)
pp. 136-161
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/025/mwr-025-04-0136.pdf
The winning monograph prepared by Marvin in competition
for the "Chanute Prize".
-
Anouncement of Prize.
-
Introduction.
-
Definitions and axiomatic
statements.
-
General statement.
-
Forces acting on kites in general.
-
Circumstances of equilibrium and
motion.
-
Explanation of the flight of kites.
-
Abnormal flight of kites.
-
Effects of changes in wind and position of
kite.
-
Conditions of stability and steadiness of
kites.
-
Numerical data.
-
The mechanics of the kite string.
-
Properties of the catenary.
"I herewith enclose $100, and
authorize the Boston Aeronautical Society to offer this sum as a
special prize for the best monograph on the kite, giving a full
theory of its mechanics and stability, with quantitative
computations appended."
THE FRANKLIN KITE CLUB Authors n/a Monthly
Weather Review
Volume 25, Issue 4 (April 1897) pp.
162-163
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/025/mwr-025-04-0162.pdf
THE KITE AS USED BY ESPY
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 25, Issue 4 (April 1897)
pp. 163-163
Link: --- (The same link as THE
FRANKLIN KITE CLUB)
THE KITE USED IN 1822 BY FISHER
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 25, Issue 4 (April 1897)
pp. 163-164
Link: --- (The same as THE FRANKLIN
KITE CLUB)
ARCHIBALD ON KITES
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 25, Issue 4 (April 1897)
pp. 164-16
Link: --- (NONE)
THE FRANKLIN KITE CLUB AND JAMES SWAIM
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 25, Issue 4 (April 1897)
pp. 165-165
Link: --- (NONE)
KITES IN AMERICA AND EUROPE
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 25, Issue 4 (April 1897)
pp. 165-166
Link: (NONE - not available)
"The Eiffel tower seemed to
perfectly respond to our needs, but such towers are expensive and
rare."
CAPTAIN DANSEY'S KITE FOR STRANDED
VESSELS
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 25, Issue 5 (May 1897) pp.
206-206
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/025/mwr-025-05-0206a.pdf
SCIENTIFIC KITE-FLYING.
With special Reference to the Blue Hill
Experiments.
J.B. Millet
The
Century, Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Volume LIV, New Series XXXII. May, 1897, to October,
1897
Link
(Pictures by Will H. Drake, George Wright, Henry
Sandham.)
"Almost every man remembers
kite-flying as one of the delights of his youth; but few, if any,
have until very recently experienced the unique sensation of flying
a kite up into the clouds. It is thrilling, indeed, to watch a kite
disappear in the mist, to remain there sometimes half an hour; and
still more so, in flying several kites on one string, to see some
above and others below the cloud, perhaps facing in various
directions as the wind currents in different strata
vary."
"SCIENTIFIC KITE-FLYING" - AN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
H. Helm Clayton
The
Century, Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Volume LIV, New Series XXXII. May, 1897, to October,
1897
Link
EXPERIMENTS WITH KITES.
Including an Account of the Writers Ascent from
Governor's Island, New York Harbor.
Hugh D. Wise
The
Century, Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Volume LIV, New Series XXXII. May, 1897, to October,
1897
Link
(Pictures by George Wright.)
"Among others may be named
Marvin, Langley, Hargrave, and Eddy; by their labours a hitherto
useless toy has become an important scientific
apparatus."
Photographing from Kites.
William A. Eddy
The
Century, Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Volume LIV, New Series XXXII. May, 1897, to October,
1897
Link
(Pictures by George Wright.)
"An enemy's encampment beyond
high hills could readily be photographed and the negative developed
in fifteen minutes. A print by electric light can be made in two
hours, and by sunlight in less than five minutes, after the
development of the negative."
KERKAM'S KITES WITH ROCKET SIGNALS
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 25, Issue 5 (May 1897) pp.
206-206
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/025/mwr-025-05-0206b.pdf
THE PROBLEM OF THE KITE
Alexander G. McAdie
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 25, Issue 6 (June 1897)
pp. 246-248
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/025/mwr-025-05-0206b.pdf
KITES AT THE CHICAGO CONFERENCE, AUGUST,
1893
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 25, Issue 7 (July 1897)
pp. 310-314
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/025/mwr-025-07-0310b.pdf
ON THE MECHANICS OF THE KITE
Horace M. Decker
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 25, Issue 8 (August 1897)
pp. 349-350
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/025/mwr-025-07-0310b.pdf
THE HIGHEST KITE ASCENSIONS AT BLUE
HILL
S.P. Fergusson
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 25, Issue 9 (September
1897) pp. 392-392
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/025/mwr-025-09-0392.pdf
THE KITE IN FRANCE
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 25, Issue 11 (November
1897) pp. 490-491
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/025/mwr-025-09-0392.pdf
LIGHTNING ON THE KITE WIRE
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 26, Issue 4 (April 1898)
pp. 170-172
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/026/mwr-026-04-0170.pdf
KITES WITHIN A THUNDER CLOUD
Thomas Hovenden
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 26, Issue 6 (June 1898)
pp. 251-251
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/026/mwr-026-06-0251a.pdf
LIGHTNING ON THE KITE WIRE
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 26, Issue 6 (June 1898)
pp. 257-257
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/026/mwr-026-06-0257a.pdf
NEW USE FOR KITES-THE TELEPHONE KITE
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 26, Issue 6 (June 1898)
pp. 257-257
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/026/mwr-026-06-0257c.pdf
PROGRESS IN THE EXPLORATION OF THE AIR WITH KITES AT THE
BLUE HILL OBSERVATORY, MASSACHUSETTS
A. Lawrence Rotch
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 26, Issue 8 (August 1898)
pp. 355-356
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/026/mwr-026-08-0355.pdf
THE KITE AND TELEPHONE
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 26, Issue 8 (August 1898)
pp. 366-366
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/026/mwr-026-08-0366a.pdf
A RECORD OF SOME KITE EXPERIMENTS
William A. Eddy
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 26, Issue 10 (October
1898) pp. 450-452
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/026/mwr-026-08-0366a.pdf
KITE WORK IN MADEIRA
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 26, Issue 12 (December
1898) pp. 552-552
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/026/mwr-026-12-0552b.pdf
PROGRESS IN KITE WORK
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 26, Issue 12 (December
1898) pp. 552-552
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/026/mwr-026-12-0552c.pdf
SPOOL KITES AND KITES WITH RADIAL
WINGS
Authors n/a
Monthly Weather Review
Volume 27, Issue 4 (April 1899)
pp. 154-155
Link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/027/mwr-027-04-0154c.pdf
V. KITES - HISTORY AND APLICATION TO
METEOROLOGICAL PURPOSES AT BLUE HILL AND
ELSEWHERE
Abbott Lawrence
Rotch
Sounding the ocean of air; being six lectures
delivered before the Lowell institute of Boston, in December
1898
London [etc.] Society for promoting Christian knowledge;
New York, E. & J. B. Young & co.
1900 (With illustrations.)
Link
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"To-day in Holland we see boys
flying the English bow-kite and the common kite with crossed sticks,
both of which require tails, and by the side of them tailless kites
imported from the Dutch colonies in Java. Fig. 7 presents a kite
from the east coast of Java, drawn from a model in a museum at
Amsterdam, and also a drawing of a Chinese bird-kite in the National
Museum at Wasington."
VI. RESULTS OF THE KITE - FLIGHTS AT BLUE HILL - FUTURE
WORK
Abbott Lawrence Rotch
Sounding the ocean of air; being
six lectures delivered before the Lowell institute of Boston, in
December 1898
London [etc.] Society for promoting Christian knowledge;
New York, E. & J. B. Young & co.
1900 (With illustrations.)
Link
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"Kites poses several advantages
over other methods of exploring the air up to heights of at least
12,000 feet whenever there is wind, but their chief merit is, that
with them the true conditions of the air may be ascertained. The
disadvantages of other methods of exploring the air, as compared
with kites, are these: ..."
Kites and Instruments Employed in the
Exploration of the Air,
at Blue Hill Observatory, 1897 to
1902
S. P. Fergusson
Annals of The Astronomical Observatory of Harvard
College - Observations and Investigations made at the Blue Hill
Meteorological Observatory
Volume XLIII. - Part III, Appendix D. (1901 and 1902)
pp. 215-239 (Four plates)
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239)
State of the art article on Kite
Experiments.
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Introduction.
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Kites.
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Materials Employed in the Construction of
Kites.
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Construction of Kites.
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Different Patterns of Kites
Tried.
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Materials for Covering
Kites.
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Efficiency of Kites.
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Summary.
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Devices for Flying Kites.
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Lines.
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Clamps for Use in Tandem
Flying.
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Testing Machine.
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Windlass.
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Meteorographs.
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Other Meteorographs.
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Exposure of Meteorographs.
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Methods of Testing Meteorographs.
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Instruments for Measuring Altitudes.
"At least 30
per cent. of the completed sticks are too defective for use, and
altogether, the loss amounts to about 50 per cent. of each lot of
timber purchased."
