Lara McCoy-Rolofson's Tumblr blog, from which I retrieved these photos, made me aware of Alexander Graham Bell's experiments with kites, pursuant to human-piloted flight.
And I include this site I found, not for the content, but for its having survived from the very early days of the World Wide Web (the site last updated 10/31/95). This is what the Web looked like when I first checked it out around 1996, which is why I mostly abandoned it for several years after.
Once an inventor always an inventor. I didn't know he tried his hand at flying.
ReplyDeleteRob, I learned about this myself just yesterday. Those kites and towers he built were really unusual and intricate.
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