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The pioneer in scientific kite-flying in America, in the recent 

 period, is the Blue Hill Observatory, in the suburbs of Boston; and 

 here, too, the highest flights have been made. 



It is not asserted that there have not been other successful experi- 

 ments with kites, but that the results of those at Blue Hill are in 

 advance of all others in the field of meteorology. Mr. E. Douglass 

 Archibald, in England, has made experiments with a kite and 

 anemometer, and is the inventor of the improved tail, which has 



Clayton's 

 Keel Kite. 



Eddy's 

 Bird Kite. 



Cellular or 

 Box Kite. 



A Train of Tandeu Kites beaking a Meteorograph. 



cup cones instead of bobs; while Mr. Hargrave, an Englishman in 

 Australia, there invented the valuable type of kite which bears his 

 name. In America, Prof. C. E. Marvin, Mr. A. W. Potter, and 

 others, of Washington; Mr. William A. Eddy, of New Jersey; 

 and Mr. G. T. Woglom and others, of New York, have all done 

 valuable service. Professor Marvin is the author of the two pam- 

 phlets of valuable technical investigations in relation to kites, issued 

 by the United States Weather Bureau. Mr. Woglom, also, has pub- 

 lished a valuable treatise on parakites, while Mr. Eddy has devised 

 the excellent kite connected with his name. 



The first attempts at Blue Hill were with the Malay kite — the 

 prototype of the Eddy kite. Mr. Eddy claims, however, that his 

 bird-form kite is the result of his own study and experiment, before 

 he had exact knowledge of the form used by the Malays and 

 Javanese. 



The descriptive term, bird-form, has reference, not to the out- 

 lines of a bird of any kind, but of the proportions of width to length 

 in a kite, as comparable to the length of body and spread of wings 



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