William Abner Eddy (1850-1909)
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- Name (English)
- William Abner Eddy
- Short name
- William Abner Eddy
- Year of birth
- 1850
- Year of death
- 1909
- Short Description
- "William Abner Eddy (January 28, 1850 – December 26, 1909) was an American accountant and journalist famous for his photographic and meteorological experiments with kites. The scientific significance of Eddy's improvements to kite-flying was short-lived, due to the advent of Lawrence Hargrave's rectangular box kites. Nevertheless, in the year following Eddy's death, a train of ten Eddy kites reaching an altitude of 23,385 feet (7,128 m) set a height record for several years." - (en.wikipedia.org 12.08.2021)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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