Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1908 — Uses for the Kite. [ARTICLE]

Uses for the Kite.

The kite, that toy ana delight of boyhood, has very practical uses. In engineering it is employed to carry liner across deep chasms, thus supplying a means, of carrying heavier cables, and by their use in turn, parts of the sustaining frame of the structure during its erection. Kites are also used to cary life lines across a line of surf and breakers for the purpose of removing the passengers of stranded vessels.