Who was the first to fly a kite? Detailed answer

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Who flew the first kite?

The history of kites is so long that no one today will undertake to name the author of the first kite, or at least the country where he lived. Some argue that it was a Greek named Arkitas who lived in the XNUMXth century AD. e. But in the countries of the East, kites were launched, probably, long before that.

In China, "snakes" have always been an important part of many holidays. On the ninth day of the ninth month of the Chinese calendar, the "High Flying Festival" is celebrated nationwide. The sky has a colorful view, completely dotted with snakes of various shapes and sizes. Some of them are shaped like fish, frogs, birds. This is not only a children's holiday: quite adult people unite in games. There are even "kite battles" in which kites with pieces of glass attached to them are used to cut the strings of other kites!

In Western countries, snakes were used for more serious purposes. In 1752, Benjamin Franklin launched a silk kite into a thunderstorm to prove that lightning and electricity were one and the same. Even before Franklin, kites were flown with thermometers attached to them to study cloud temperatures.

By the end of the 1,6th century, kites were used by most weather stations. They were equipped with devices for recording air temperature and humidity, wind speed. Some of these kites have flown over six kilometers! In order to reach such a height, not one, but several kites connected together were used. The snake thread was made of very thin wire and was so light that it weighed only 7 kg for 110 km, and strong enough to lift XNUMX kg without breaking.

Before the invention of the airplane, kites were also used for military purposes, when balloons made forced landings due to strong winds. For example, one of these kites reached a length of 11 meters and lifted a person into the air by 30 meters.

Although most kites are of the familiar triangular shape, the most powerful kites are box-shaped, completely closed at the top and bottom and partly at the sides. To build a kite in the form of a butterfly, a ship or a bird, one simply takes a greater number of sticks than in ordinary kites and pulls on the threads to obtain the desired shape.

Author: Likum A.

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