Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon (1908)
Hildebrandt, A. (Alfred), b. 1870, Story, W. H. tr · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 138
ordinary kite musthave been well known atthe time when BenjaminFranklin applied them forelectrical purposes. Hehad proved that longinsulated metal rods wereable to collect electricity from the atmosphere, and proposed to conduct it from the clouds toearth. In 1752 he constructed kites, such as were…
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