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Scientific American, Vol. 71, No. 11 (September 1894) (1894)

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here are several obstacles to the use of kites which weighed 2 pounds, and the least pull at a height of I found it necessary to overcome. First, the insta- in mild winds of from four to eight miles an hour. 1,400 feet was 30, it seems to follow that in a wind of 20 miles an hour a man, weighing… … to the back of the lower, because he winds A B = C D and the kite is nar- speaks of the movement of the lower rowed. C E = 18 per cent of C D in kite being injured in its freedom of both strong and light wind kites. The movement by the pull of the upper, thin manila paper should be put on a result…

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