SCIENCE 
IS 
KNOWLEDGE. 
KNOWLEDGE 
IS 
POWER. 
A Popular Record of Scientific Experiments, hiventions and Progress 
Copyright Secured, 1877. 
Vol. I. 
NEW YORK, MAY, 1878. 
No. 5. 
The Champion Kite, and How it was 
Made. 
By Joshua Kose. M. E. 
SN'T she a beauty?" said 
one. 
**Dont duck a bit," 
said another. 
*'I know why she 
stands so still in the 
air," chimed in a third; 
"it's because the string 
don't belly." 
"It don't stand quite 
still, " remarked a fourth. 
"It moves slowly some- 
times." 
"Yes; but she don't keep wagging her 
liead first to one side, and then to the other, 
as though she was playing bo-peep with her 
tail," was the rejoinder. 
Harry Burt felt very proud to hear these 
Temarks applied to his new kite, and showed 
his gratification by letting, first one and 
then another of his schoolmates, hold the 
string. 
"Hurrah! Hurrah!! Hurrah!!!" rang out 
upon the air as the kite became invisible. 
" Out of sight, by Jove!" cried one. 
"She can't have broke loose," said an- 
other, half afraid that the kite had done so; 
"because the string is tight, and she is 
tugging away still." 
"Kun it down a little and see," said 
Harry. And away scampered one of the 
boys, with the thread of the kite passing 
through his hand, causing the kite to lower 
until it was again in sight. 
"Let go," cried Harry, and the boy did 
so. Up shot the kite as straight as a dart. 
But the rain soon began to patter, so 
Harry wound up the kite string, and walked 
home, surrounded by his companions, who 
never tired of praising his wonderful kite. 
That morning Harry had stood looking, 
first anxiously oat of the window at his 
playmates, who were flying their kites in the 
meadow, and then wistfully at his uncle, 
who was reading a book. 
"What are you waiting for, Harry?" said 
his uncle, as he noticed Harry's furtive 
glances out of the window. 
"I was watching my schoolfellows flying 
their kites," answered Harry hopefully. 
