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quotes[0]='In 1906, just six days after the devastating San Francisco earthquake of April 18th, George Lawrence took aerial photographs of the stricken city from a camera suspended below a train of Conyne kites. <i>-Clive Hart</i>'

quotes[1]='William Abner Eddy was the first kite flier in North America to take anaerial photograph from a camera suspended below a kite (kite aerial photography).<i>-1895Scientific American</i>'

quotes[2]='On Dec. 12, 1901, Guglielmo Marconi and William Kemp raised an antenna with a kite above Signal Hill, St. Johns, Newfoundland. The aerial received a wireless Morse code signal for the letter \'S\' from Cornwall England, across the Atlantic Ocean.  This was the first trans - Atlantic wireless message. <i>-National Archives of Canada</i>'

quotes[3]='On Dec. 6, 1907 Alexander Graham Bell\'s huge Cygnet kite carried Lt. Thomas A. Selfridge of the US Army aloft over Bras d \'Or Lake in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.  The huge kite was made up of 3393 tetrahedral cells. It carried Selfridge to a height of 51 metres and remained in flight for just over seven minutes. <i>-JH Parkin</i>'

quotes[4]='In 1948 Dr. Francis Rogallo patented a flexible kite that had no solid framing. The kite design was tested in wind tunnels to maximize flight characteristics and effective wing design. Work began on the kite design in 1943. Dr. Rogallo was assisted by his wife Gertrude. <i>-Best Breezes Time Line of Kite History</i>'

quotes[5]='Anne Quemere of France crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a 2006 solo voyage powered by large parafoil kites. <i>-Best Breezes Research Compilation</i>'

quotes[6]='William Allison of Ohio patented the sled kite in 1956. This unique kite forms a canopy and is very stable in flight.  The sled kite is often used to introduce children to kite making and kite flying due to its excellent flight characteristics. Later modifications to the design were made by Frank Scott of Ohio in 1960 and Ed Grauel of Rochester NY in 1973. <i>-Best Breezes Research Compilation</i>'

quotes[7]='In 1908 the elegant Roloplan kite is marketed by German toy company Steiff, famous for it\'s line of stuffed bears.  Featuring double wings off of a main centre spar, the kite generates a great deal of lift and flies at a high angle. A simplified English adaptation of the kite created by Alick Pearson of London in the early 1970\'s becomes known as the Roller. <i>-Best Breezes Research Compilation</i>'

quotes[8]='On August 1, 1919 a kite train of eight \'Schirmkastendrachen\' reached the altitude of 9740 metres. The first kite had a surface of 10 square metres, the second 5 square metres and the remaining six kites each had a surface of 8 square metres. The flying line, made of heavy piano wire, was nearly 15 km long. The \'Schirmdrachen\', English for umbrella kite, was a modified Hargrave box kite, using a totally different spar construction. The inner spars could be opened and closed like an umbrella to tighten the kite. <i>- Best Breezes Research Compilation</i>'

quotes[9]='In 1939 the U.S. Air Force and Navy equipped pilots with \'Gibson Girl\' rescue signal kite kits. The box kites in each kit were made with an aluminum frame that popped open when a downed flyer opened the kite. As the downed pilot sat in his life raft, the kite was flown from a metal aerial wire which was attached to a hand dynamo and Morse code radio transmission unit. These systems were also used by the Australian and British Air Forces. Later in W.W.II, the Russian Air Force developed a very similar rescue kit. The kite rescue kits were used through the Korean War in the 1950\'s. <i>-Best Breezes Research Compilation</i>'

quotes[10]='The precise origin of the kite is obscure, however anthropologists and history scholars believe it was developed either in China, Malasia, Indonesia or the South Pacific islands. <i>-approximately 1500 BC</i>'

quotes[11]='Paper was used in early Chinese and Japanese kites following it\'s invention in the early 2nd century. Chinese and Japanese papers were made from long pulp grains and were much stronger than most paper used today. <i>-0105 AD</i>'

quotes[12]='Bamboo strips, as well as entire bamboo shoots, are frequently used for kite framing. Split strips of bamboo can be shaped to create many varieties of kite forms. Bamboo is very strong and has some resilience which makes it an ideal natural material for kite frames. <i>-Best Breezes research</i>'

quotes[13]='The introduction of kites to India was likely made by Chinese travellers, Fa Hien, who visited between 399 and 414 AD, and Hiuen Tsang, who visited in 643 AD. These missionary travellers visited the Kannauj region of India after travelling through present day Bangaladesh and the Kashmir valley. <i>-Best Breezes research</i>'

quotes[14]='Kites came to Japan from China during the Nara period. The kites were used in Buddhist ceremonies. It is not certain if they were brought to Japan by Bhuddist missionaries or by craftsmen from China.<i>-Approximately 0675</i>'

quotes[15]='During Marco Polo\'s China travels during the decade of the 1280\'s, he reported seeing large kites flown with men strapped to the surface of the sail. <i>-1282, \'The Travels of Marco Polo\' written in 1295</i>'

quotes[16]='Francesco Lana wrote in an Italian treatise, dated 1670, that kites were used by children in Italy. <i>-Berthold Laufer</i>'

quotes[17]='Alexander Wilson and Thomas Melville, from the University of Glasgow, Scotalnd, made the first recorded weather experiments using instruments lifed by kites. <i>-Berthold Laufer</i>'

quotes[18]='Benjamin Franklin and his son William conduct their famous lightning experiment with a kite. <i>-Carl Van Doren in his 1938 biography of the American scientist and statesman entitled \'Benjamin Franklin\'. </i>'

quotes[19]='Daniel Bernoulli, a Swiss mathematician, formulates the \'Bernoulli Principle\'. This principle, originally developed to explain differential pressures in moving fluids, is later used to develop understandings of how an airfoil develops lift relying upon the pressure differential above and below a wing.  <i>-1783</i>'

quotes[20]='Sir George Cayley begins kite experiments in England in 1783. The experiments last until 1809 when he is able to describe the problems that need to be solved in order to achieve manned flight. Work on his famous gliders culminates in a successful 40 second flight of an unmanned glider in 1853. <i>-Richard Dee in \'The Man Who Discovered Flight, George Cayley and the First Airplane\'. </i>'

quotes[21]='George Pocock of England uses kites to lift his daughter demonstrating the lifting power of kites. He also develops his \'Char Volant\' a carriage pulled by a maneuverable kite. Pocock\'s work with traction kiting is detailed in his famous book: \'the Aeropleuristic Art\' in 1822. <i>-Best Breezes research compilation</i>'

quotes[22]='In 1848 Homan Walsh flew a kite over the Niagara gorge to land a line that would eventually lead to the construction of the first suspension bridge over the Niagara River. <i>-Pierre Berton in his book \'Niagara\'.</i>'

quotes[23]='Douglas Archibald takes world\'s first photos from a kite in 1887.<i>-David Pelham and Clive Hart</i>'

quotes[24]='In 1891, Wm. A. Eddy uses five of his tailless kites in train to make automatic air temperature readings with a Richard\'s \'Thermograph\'at the Blue Hill Observatory near Boston, Massachussets. <i>-Blue Hill archives with research by Best-Breezes</i>'

quotes[25]='Lawrence Hargrave of Australia develops the Hargrave Box multi-celled kite. A number of different and original designs are tested by Hargrave. His work with box kites and the aeronautics surrounding their flight is widely published. It becomes a major influence on the developers of powered flight. <i>-1892 and onward. Detailed by T.C. Roughley in his 1937 study of \'The Aeronautical Work of Lawrence Hargrave\'.</i>'

quotes[26]='Major BFS Baden-Powell lifts observers with kites for British army, demonstrating the role that kites could play to assist with observation of the enemy. <i>-1894 detailed by David Pelham and Clive Hart</i>'

quotes[27]='William Abner Eddy applies for patent of his tailless, diamond kite in 1898. The patent, number 646375 is issued in 1900. Eddy\'s diamond shaped tailless kite is one of the most famous kite shapes of all time. <i>-Best-Breezes research compilation</i>'

quotes[28]='The tetrahedral kite protoype is developed in Washington DC By Dr. Alexander Graham Bell in the winter of 1901. It is tested at Baddeck, Nova Scotia in the spring of 1902. The kite\'s four rigid triangular sides made it lightweight and strong. <i>-JH Parkin</i>'

quotes[29]='In 1902 the Wright Brothers of Dayton, Ohio used a kite model of their glider to test flight characteristics. The Wright\'s go on to become the first in the world to achieve powered flight controlled by a human on board the craft on December 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. <i>-Orville Wright in \'How We Made The First Flight\', April 3, 1912.</i>'

quotes[30]='Richard Synergy of Toronto, Canada achieves new Single Kite Altitude Record by flying to 13,609 feet above the flying field at Kincardine, ON - August 12, 2000. <i>-Best-Breezes research compilation</i>'

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