Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The box kite was invented in 1893 by Lawrence Hargrave, [1] an English-born Australian, as part of his attempt to develop a manned flying machine. Hargrave linked several of his box kites ( Hargrave cells ) together, creating sufficient lift for him to fly some 16 ft (4.9 m) off the ground. [ 2 ]
The kite experiment is a scientific experiment in which a kite with a pointed conductive wire attached to its apex is flown near thunder clouds to collect static electricity from the air and conduct it down the wet kite string to the ground.
Kite flying originated as a Chinese tradition to mark the beginning of spring. However, because the plantation owners were suspicious of the planter class (read "plantation workers"), the Chinese claimed that it represented the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It was a clever argument, as at that time, Christians celebrated Easter to the glory of ...
A group has developed an air kite that dynamically was coupled with a water kite that they also developed: French L'aile d'eau L'aile d'eau (mastless boat is a water kite or paravane) The group succeeded in having a double-kite system with one kite an air kite and the other kite a paravane water kite. The air kite pulled the submarine water ...
In the 1820s British inventor George Pocock developed man-lifting kites, using his own children in his experimentation. [8]In the early 1890s, Captain B. F. S. Baden-Powell, soon to become president of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, developed his "Levitor" kite, a hexagonal-shaped kite intended to be used by the army in order to lift a man for aerial observation or for lifting ...
Jacob's Ladder, a kite-powered boat, set the C-Class world sailing speed record with a speed of 25 knots (46 km/h) in 1982, a record that stood for six years. [8] A kiteboard was the first sailing craft to exceed a speed of 50 knots (93 km/h) in October 2008. [8] Power kites range in size from 1.2 to 50 m 2 (13 to 538 sq ft). All kites are made ...
The history of aviation spans over two millennia, from the earliest innovations like kites and attempts at tower jumping to supersonic and hypersonic flight in powered, heavier-than-air jet aircraft. Kite flying in China, dating back several hundred years BC, is considered the earliest example of man-made flight. [1]
A kite is a quadrilateral with reflection symmetry across one of its diagonals. Equivalently, it is a quadrilateral whose four sides can be grouped into two pairs of adjacent equal-length sides. [1] [7] A kite can be constructed from the centers and crossing points of any two intersecting circles. [8]