Parakites : a treatise on the making and flying of tailless kites for scientific purposes and for recreation (1896)
Woglom, Gilbert Totten · New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 35
F kites are used. The view of a swarm of these in a favorable wind is indeed a suggestively sweet treat. As they erratically sway about in the air they revive the homely vision of flies around a molasses barrel. Photograph A is of one of these butterfly kites. The Chinese design many forms for both… … DIAGRAM G. and adapted to such strong winds as will rotate the two "windmill " wheels on the faces of the two disks. It is called the wheel kite, and will fly only with tail. The fish kite * for boys— Diagram H— is a hollow paper-fish, *That quaint wind-vane or " fly," humorously dubbed the "…
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