Hargrave box kite
Cometa celular de Hargrave
- Date
- 1893 · confidence high
- Place
- Stanwell Park, New South Wales, Australia
- Credited to
- Lawrence Hargrave
- People
- 👤 Lawrence Hargrave1850–1915
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A box kite with rectangular cells offering great lift and stability, with which Hargrave rose five metres off the ground in 1894. Its cellular biplane structure inspired early European aviators.
Hargrave did not patent his inventions and published his results openly.
What it led to
- the biplanes of Voisin and Santos-Dumont
- meteorological kites