It seems the whole world is
KRAZY for KITES!!!
This is an early
"Winged box kite"
Châteaux de Rouzat
France
1905
Nice sun hat Jean-Claude.
G.S. Kemp
Assistant to
with a "Levitor kite"
used in Marconi's early experiments.
Guglielmo Marconi
1874-1937
You can blame this
nobel prize
winning joker
for your annoying cell phone.
in action testing his
"Manlift kites"
in Stanwell Park, Australia,
1894.
In case you were wondering,
that's his assistant
James Swan to the right.
Larry again,
playing with his silly kites.
This time he is working out some cellular permutations.
Crazy Larry!
"War Kite"
by
1904
Assitant unknown
Check-out SFC's stash!
Nice lid too Sammy.
Cody again,
with his
"Cody Kite Corps"
1904.
He was such a badass.
Cody showing off
(that apparently wasn't hard for him)
just a few of his kites
at Alexandra Palace,
1905.
The man, the myth, the
badass.
"Man carrying biplane glider kite"
by who else
but
1905
Members of Cody's Kite Corps
with a
"Lifter kite"
"Man-lifting kite"
France
1910
in da house!
"Bell kite"
1902
(This was later turned into a winged boat,
where is that picture?)
You are
SO strong
Dr Bell....
Rockin' 'stash too!
One of Dr. Bell's
"early cellular giants"
being launched.
(Moments after this shot, the kite broke apart.)
"Siamese Twins"
Dr. Bell's potential
"man-carrier"
1905
Dr. Bell
with his
"Oinos kite"
1902
Kite flying
in
Biarritz, France
1904
Walter Brook
holding a
"Jibbed box kite"
early 1900s
Wally and his brother Thomas
formed
and cashed in on the kite craze.
The company is still around today
in case you are looking for a
kite.
again
and some of his
dihedral and cellular kite configurations.
1893
Cool
'"The finest kite designer of all time."
and "aide"
with a
"Aerocurve kite"
1897
This design would later be the basis
for early biplanes.
Selection of
English "box kites"
designed to carry advertising banners.
(You knew that was coming....)
1920s
"Twelve-sided giant radial-wingerd kite"
Dr. Bell again.
This is my favorite.
The "helper"
on the ground
will remain annoymous....
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Charles Eames: "In structure our architecture as well as furniture has been likened to kites. While I wouldn’t take that too literally, it doesn’t seem completely unnatural since we not only are interested in kites, but we have used
ReplyDeletethem as problems for students to develop an
attitude toward architecture.
The marvelous part about a kite problem is
that this is one area in which one can definitely
judge its success or failure – that is -
it will fly or it will not fly. I wish more
problems could be so beautifully defined."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCiG7xoEb2Y
ReplyDeletedaniel - in architecture it is (for example) wallpaper that judges whether your building is gonna fly or smash on the well manicured lawn..
ReplyDeletepress became a new "naturgewalt" for architecture and design..
hey maybe you will like this song!
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enjoy and happy holidays!