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; ...

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.

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 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.

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.

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 ...

George R. Lawrence used a system of kites outfitted with a 49-pound camera to show a bird's-eye view of San Francisco, Chicago and New York City - among other towns - in a way that they had never ...

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