The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-06-12
|, Gives the Autobiography Of the
Telephone and Tells Why
all Electrician Could
Not Have Invent liz
ed It..
INVENTIVE AGE BEGINNING

In proportion to their size and weight
than any kites ever made. vi
"But i can show you models and photo. Y
graphs Of my work In this line, said Dr.
Bell. He thereupon left the room ana d
little later returned bringing several
large scrap hooks filled with photographs
and also some kites and kite frames Of a
peculiar shape.
This Is the way ! note down my
work. said he as he opened scrap
book. " find 1t almost impossible to keep
a record Of inventive progress with pen
or pencil just at the time one makes 4
discovery he Is so interested In going on
with 1t that he fails to put down the fact I,
and the time. The result Is there Is dam
ger Of losing the record and the possibil-
ity OF establishing his priority OF the
discovery. Now have one man who
does nothing else but make snap shots OF \
everything I do In the way Of experi-&
ments. This Is one OF the books showing
our Investigations In this particular
line" l.
/ Kites Which Will Garry Men. "
E Dr. Bell here handed me the volume It
was filled with photographs Of kites of h
various shapes; In flight, at rest and In \
construction. Some were made of small I.
tetrahedral units combined together into
Ia flying kite as big as a good-sized cot
tage,S others were boats made OF similar
units and others had other shapes. There D
were large single kites with a france
work of aluminium tubes and small kites
OF silk with wooden frames; little kites
flying from the hands OF Mrs. Bell and
other ladies' Of the family; and kites so
big thatsa steamer on the bay or q man
upon horseback had to rush along with
them to raise them into the air. s. ssl
"The strength of thesunit was shown In
of the photographs, and also the 8
great power of#the flying tetrahedrals.
Some, DR.. Bell told me- were strong
enough to carry q man into the air a nd u
some had seats In them where one might
sit II he wished to risk flight. Others a
when they flew up from the water carried
the tetrahedral boats on which they rest
ed up with them, and DR.. Bell said that q
some bad almost torn the masts from the
steam tug used to raise them. 4 here II
were photographs ofmeni hanging to the
framework to test Its strength, and, In sM
short, a wonderful collection Of snap n
shots, showing every phase Of these hum
dreds OF experiments and their results. Il
You can easily test the sustaining
power Of each kite" said DR.. Bell. as we
looked at one of the pages Of the book. y
I'VE know. for instance, that IL 1T takes 81
horse running at the rate Of ten miles
an hour to raise a kite SO that 1t may be =
kept in the air an engine OF one horse
power will do the same, provided q tho *
weight As not greater than the power
lexerted by the kite as 1t flies, We have 81
had such kites raise into the air hodtes I
Weighing six hundred pounds ard more
Such kite could therefore sustain an en-
CINE and machinery which mig 1t direct
its flight, provided their weigh altog tler3
was not more than SIX hundred pon sllel
j say this. not to indicate that have In.
vented a flying machine. but merely to
give You an idea along what lines 4 {. m n
working. am merely seeking to dis Is
cover the foundation princl PIES e VI on q
which such an invention must be bas ed.S45
When I have reached that end q smayistrSss
to 20 farther but not until u her.
Copyright 1904, by Frank q arpeln11t'er.)$