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Jul 25, 2017,post by Dave Santos
(repost of old forum post)
Birth of modern science kites If we had better records of ancient Chinese kite history, Wilson and Melvill's 1749 kite experiments would not seem so fresh and revolutionary. Kite science accelerates in our time, and may have more future than past. Emergent AWE represents the culmination of all previous kite engineering science, potentially a major milestone of world history- Alexander Wilson (astronomer)
"In 1749 Wilson made the first recorded use of kites in meteorology with his lodger, a 23-year-old Glasgow University student Thomas Melvill, who went on to discover sodium light. They measured air temperature at various levels above the ground simultaneously with a train of kites." ~ wiki editors |