Correspondence about old dutch peartop kite 2008
Published: 02 Dec 2008
Dear Kitefriends,Before all I wish to thank you for sending me the Kite journal in which thepictures of what you call "Worlds Oldest Kite".I hope I can contribute some minor particularities about its discovery.John Verheij and I are happy to learn about your trying to conserve and expose this rare artefact.First about the finder.It was Cas Heeneman who took the kite to Gerard van der Loo. I thought toknow that he was the finder, but now he told me how it happened. The finderwas a carpenter ...
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Notes on The Old Dutch Kite
Published: 28 Sep 2006
Owner: Peter Lynn, New ZealandDate: September 28, 2006Item: Type of kite, French pear top Information:Earliest form of European kite Pear shape form is the earliest kite in Europe, this one was discoveredin Hague, Netherlands, but is it French? ...
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Kite Origins, written 2005
Published: 02 Apr 2005
George Pocock, the acknowledged father of kite traction, made a good start with his patented controllable traction kites in the 1820- but even after 175 years of development, traction kites are a very long way from being 'perfected'- actually they're still barely useable (and not yet competitive) in comparison to conventional sails. The reason they have taken so long to develop to a state of useability that has enabled the development of a (minor so far) market is because there are so many perfo...
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KITES by Bob Maysmor
Published: 02 Nov 2004
Subentry 1: Maori kites[1] From China, where the kite originated, it spread south to the Malay Peninsula, through Indonesia, Melanesia and, by way of the migration drift of the Polynesians throughout Oceania with its eventual introduction into Aotearoa (New Zealand) by the Maori. (Few if any kite historians (except maybe Chinese ones) now believe that kites originated in China. The first written reference to kites is from China, but kites are undoubtedly much older than writing- their...
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