Kites invented by who were the first devised that humans used to investigate flight?
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The name of the person who invented the kite is lost to history. Traditionally, historians have given credit to the Chinese. In fact, one legend has it that the kite was born when a Chinese farmer tied his hat to his head using a string to keep the wind from blowing the hat away.
Today, evidence indicates that the Chinese may not have been the first to fly kites. Other peoples, such as those in Malaysia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Hawaii and Polynesia, may have developed kites at about the same time as the Chinese. The credit may have gone to China simply has better written and artistic records that have lasted through time to today.
Kites have been flown for at least 2,300 years. The oldest information in existence today credits Chinese philosopher Mo-tse (c. 468 BC - c. 391 BC), also called Mo Di, Mo Ti or Mo Tzu, as being the kite's creator. Besides supposedly creating"the first kite, Mo-tse broke off from Confucian thinking to develop a philosophy/religion that said that people would benefit from treating everyone with the same love that they felt for their own families or, as he called it, "universal love."
Regardless of who actually invented the kite, kites, kite making and kite flying spread from the kite originators. Kites arrived in Korea and Japan in the 100s AD. While Romans may have flown wind socks as a form of military banners, it was Marco Polo (c. 1254 - c. 1324) brought information on the mysteries of kites to Europe after his adventures in China. From Europe, settlers brought kites to the New World.
Today, millions of people, children and adults alike, fly kites in competition or just for the pure joy of seeing a kite float through the air.
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Kites were used approximately 2,800 years ago in China, where materials ideal for kite building were readily available: silk fabric for sail material, fine, high-tensile-strength silk for flying line, and resilient bamboo for a strong, lightweight framework. Alternatively, the kite authors Clive Hart and Tal Streeter hold that leaf kites existed far before that time in what is now Indonesia, based on their interpretation of cave paintings on Muna Island off Sulawesi. The kite was said to be the invention of the famous 5th century BC Chinese philosophers Mozi and Lu Ban. By at least 549 AD paper kites were being flown, as it was recorded in that year a paper kite was used as a message for a rescue mission.[15] Ancient and medieval Chinese sources list other uses of kites for measuring distances, testing the wind, lifting men, signaling, and communication for military operations. The earliest known Chinese kites were flat (not bowed) and often rectangular. Later, tailless kites incorporated a stabilizing bowline. Kites were decorated with mythological motifs and legendary figures; some were fitted with strings and whistles to make musical sounds while flying. In 1750, Benjamin Franklin published a proposal for an experiment to prove that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a storm that appeared capable of becoming a lightning storm. Benjamin Franklin wisely never performed his experiment, but on May 10, 1752, Thomas-François Dalibard of France conducted Franklin’s experiment (using a 40-foot (12 m)-tall iron rod instead of a kite) and extracted electrical sparks from a cloud.
The period from 1860 to about 1910 became the “golden age of kiting”. Kites started to be used for scientific purposes, especially in meteorology, aeronautics, wireless communications and photography; reliable manned kites were developed as well as power kites. Invention of powered airplane diminished interest in kites.World War II saw a limited use of kites for military purposes (see Focke Achgelis Fa 330 for example). Since then they are used mainly for recreation due to a vast improvement in technology.