View source for Clayton, 1894, The Eddy Malay tailless kite

Includes letters from Eddy, the kite inventor, and Clayton, at Blue Hill Observatory.

Eddy describes his tailless kite based on a Malay design, which he writes can be more useful for meteorological observation, as they can handle fast winds at high altitudes with no risk tails becoming entangled. He conducted experiments in 1891 and began working with Blue Hill in 1894. He records that one of the Malay kites at the top of a series reached 3,540' above Blue Hill, 4180' above sea level. A thermograph (i..e recording thermometer) was raised by three kites to 1,400' above blue hill and recorded a temperature 6° colder than the surface temperature.

{{Publication
|Original title=The Eddy Malay tailless kite
|Simple title=The Eddy Malay tailless kite
|Authors=William A. Eddy; H. Helm Clayton
|Date=1894
|Countries=US
|Languages=en
|Keywords=Malay; kite; William A. Eddy; Samuel Pierpont Langley; Blue Hill Observatory; meteorology; Charles Frederick Marvin; E. Douglas Archibald; Smithsonian Institution; instrument; Sterling Price Ferguson; thermometer
|Journal=Scient. Amer.
|Related to aircraft=1
|Page count=2
}}
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=== Sources ===
* [[Brockett 1910]], page [https://archive.org/details/bibliographyaer02brocgoog/page/194 194], entry 2804: Clayton, H. H. The Eddy Malay tailless kite. Scient. Amer., Vol. 71, No. 11 (Sept. 15, 1894), New York, pp. 169-170, ills. 3. S (2804
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