The annual Bel Air Kite Festival at Rockfield Park on Sunday, Apr. 13. This year’s festival was held in tribute to its late co-founder, Allen Ault, who died in May of 2024.

KITE TOO MUCH FOR INVENTOR.; Conyne Made an Involuntary Ascension Without Serious Results. Share full article. Special to The New York Times. Aug. 22, 1900; ...

A sort of pre-drone, Lawrence strung together up to 17 Conyne kites to lift a 49 pound camera 2,000 feet into the sky. Using piano wire and a battery’s current, he triggered the shutter from the ...

The kite chain. Around the turn of the 20th century, ... but one man rigged a device out of 17 Conyne kites, piano wire, and a 49-lb camera that got the job done.

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The device used 17 Conyne kites, strung together by piano wire, to hoist the massive camera into the air. The device was floated between 400 and 2,000 feet in the air before pictures were made.

Lawrence graduated from ladders to balloons to kites over the course of some experimentation, and eventually settled on using 17 Conyne kites (attached to each other with piano wire) to lift a 50 ...

Anne G. Conyne, 96, of Elgin passed away Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at Presence St. Joseph Hospital, Elgin. She was born June 5, 1920 in the Philippines Anne Conyne Obituary - Elgin, IL (1920-2016) ...

The following year, a Chicago inventor Silas Conyne, patented a kite for flying advertising banners. Impressed by the kites' stability and lifting power, Lawrence obtained permission to build some ...

The state happens to have wind patterns remarkably similar to Japan’s. And that is one reason why Toyota has teamed up with researchers from Oklahoma State University to build high-altitude ...