“In most cases, the kite is being struck by lightning, or lightning bolts are very near it, although Franklin did not want to draw a lightning strike down upon himself," said Moura. "Most ...

"Sometimes it'll draw; sometimes it'll hook ... "All of a sudden, now I feel like I'm swinging and the club's just a kite that's following me. I'm just turning the body and the club falls." ...

As in the sentry box experiment, the kite was insulated, not earthed. By approaching a finger or knuckle, the experimenter could draw sparks,” Moura explained. Like other eighteenth-century ...

Those depictions, Crassard says, were not as accurate as the newly discovered desert kite engravings.

The 41st Weifang International Kite Festival and the 2024 Weifang Kite Carnival were just concluded in Weifang, East China's Shandong Province, drawing nearly 460 participants from 46 countries ...