Kites (Scientific)
[Alexander Graham Bell family and others in kite house with motorized tetrahedral kite]
[Alexander Graham Bell and others at kite house with tetrahedral kite "Cygnet I"]
[Page from album of flight experiments at Baddeck, Nova Scotia with sketch of kite, annotated with text; and photograph of kite in flight]
Scientific studies, Baddeck, Nova Scotia, and Lake Keuka, New York
Reproductions of patent drawings of flying machines, 1864-1895, and photographs showing Alexander Graham Bell's experimental kites in Nova Scotia, ca. 1900
[Tetrahedral kite "Codger" flown from an automobile]
[Mabel Hubbard Bell holding a tensiometer attached to cable from a flying kite]
[Alexander Graham Bell facing his wife, Mabel Hubbard Gardiner Bell, who is standing in a tetrahedral kite, Baddeck, Nova Scotia]
[Alexander Graham Bell kissing his wife Mabel Hubbard Gardiner Bell, who is standing in a tetrahedral kite, Baddeck, Nova Scotia]
H.R. Patrick with two other men of the U.S. Weather Bureau and kites, Marquette, Michigan
[Upside down kite on pier, Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Aug. 17 1909]
[Alexander Graham Bell watching tetrahedral kite]
[Alexander Graham Bell, his grandson Melville Bell Grosvenor, and others pulling on rope attached to tetrahedral kite at Baddeck, Nova Scotia]
Kite Cygnet I, on board her tender the Ugly Duckling, December 6, 1907. Lieut. Selfridge, dressed in oil-skin, can be seen sitting on the tilting frame of the Ugly Duckling
Kite Cygnet I, with Lieut. Selfridge on board, flying over the Little Bras d'Or Lake, near Baddeck, Nova Scotia, December 6, 1907
Weather Bureau "kite"
[Two photographs of two men holding a kite]
[Alexander Graham Bell (right) and his assistants observing the progress of one of his tetrahedral kites]
Activities of the Aerial Experiment Association
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