For playground, field, and forest; the outdoor handy book (1900)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 99
evolvedthe wings of a flyingmachine, it has ap-parently never oc-curred to them touse their inventionfor any other pur-pose than a beautifultoy. On a thirteen-foot kite the bow stick is half an inchthick, and the lateral cross stick is of the same thickness, butthe bottom sticks are only a quarter… … 11111/ Fig. 47.—The Live-Man Kite. Malay and Other- Tailless Kites 8i use thread, and tie the sticks to the paper covering soneatly that it has the appearance of being glued on. Thekite is a delicate affair, and is only used in fair weather,but much stronger wings can be made to suit the winds…
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