The phrase go fly a kite has been very popular for ages and used in circumstances in which one party has time to kill and is seeking advice how best to utilize that time in a harmless yet entertaining manner. You will be surprised to know that kite flying is not such a useless pastime but has been a pioneer in scientific research. It was in 1752 that the famous Benjamin Franklin published an account of a kite experiment to prove that lightning was caused by electricity.

Kites were also used in research by the Wright brothers, and others, in the development of the first aeroplane in the late 1800s. Actually, the period from 1860 to about 1910 became the European “golden age of kiting” not so much as to how to waste your time but in the advancement of research that over the years have bloomed into mind-boggling discoveries that have in many ways revolutionized the aviation and other industries.

The sad thing about human inventions is the fact that if successful sooner or later they are used to wage and support war in one........

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