Kites: An Historical Survey
Summary
Foreword by Charles H. GIbbs-Smith
Preface to the Revised Edition
Introduction
1. Origins: China
2. Other Eastern Kites
3. The Pacific
4. Early European Kites
5. The Eighteenth Century and Electric Kites
6. Meteorological Kites
7. Man-lifters
8. The Development of the Form of the Kite
9. The Kite and the Aeroplane
10. Military Kites and Other Uses
11. Flying Techniques
12. Modern Kites
A Summary Chronology
Bibliography
Index
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