In addition to developing the telephone, Alexander...  ...He experimented with a tetrahedral structure for kites to lessen the weight-to-surface ratio to enable h...  ...Bell began his experiments with tetrahedral box kites in 1898, eventually developing elaborate structur...  ...ctures comprised of multiple com...

Around the turn of the 20th century, people were n...  ...you have to wonder what they were thinking. Take kites : if you had enough of them, one could lift a man...  ...r balloons for surveillance. Surely a man-lifting kite would be better… at least that was the vie...  ...is Wild West Show career after...

Jürgen Horn and Mike Powell are in Valencia,...  ...the beach in Malvarossa, Spain. They saw regular kites as you’d recognize them, but also kites from all over the world that defied the imaginati...  ...nosaurs, and teddy bears, as well as synchronized kite flying...

via Imgur Peter Lynn Kite Factory in Ashburton, New Zealand built this fant...  ...aland built this fantastic 59-foot (18-m) 3D show kite in the shape of Toothless, the Night Fury dragon...  ...Donna-Marie Lever of ONE News reports that the kite was made by hand i...

[http://youtu.be/rnI5iwsyM9U] (YouTube link)Spence...  ...Unlimited competition at the 12th Annual Windless Kite Festival. This is a new thing to me -sort of like...

That's a whale of a kite ! Peter Lynn Kites has created a huge 100-foot long kite

(YouTube link) Kite master Ray Bethell controls three kites in a ballet set to "The Flower Duet."

Image: KiteGen Research The Italian firm KiteGen Research is developing a generator that harnesses...  ...oping a generator that harnesses the wind through kites . As a kite flies into the air, it unspools a cord that crank...  ...d...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swqFA9Mvq5...  ...9Mvq5M][YouTube - Link]Suspending a camera from a kite is not a new idea, but Charles C. Benton, profess...