. Bell telephone magazine . eputation in so doing. As LordKelvin wrote to Mrs. Bell in 1898,When I spoke to him on the subjectat Halifax, I wished to dissuade himfrom giving his valuable time andresources to attempts which I be-lieved, and still believe, could onlylead to disappointment, if carried onwith any expectation of leading to auseful flying machine. In 1891 Bell contributed $5,000for Langleys aviation experiments. On May 6, 1896, he saw the success-ful flight of Langleys steam-driven16 foot model, which, however, didnot carry a man. Speaking of thisexperience later, he said, The sight
. Bell telephone magazine . eputation in so doing. As LordKelvin wrote to Mrs. Bell in 1898,When I spoke to him on the subjectat Halifax, I wished to dissuade himfrom giving his valuable time andresources to attempts which I be-lieved, and still believe, could onlylead to disappointment, if carried onwith any expectation of leading to auseful flying machine. In 1891 Bell contributed $5,000for Langleys aviation experiments. On May 6, 1896, he saw the success-ful flight of Langleys steam-driven16 foot model, which, however, didnot carry a man. Speaking of thisexperience later, he said, The sightof Langleys steam aerodrome circ-ling in the sky convinced me that theage of the flying machine was athand. In 1898, Bell was elected a Regentof the Smithsonian Institution. Hisenthusiasm for Langleys experi-ments with small-scale models of aflying machine had much to do withobtaining from the War Departmentan appropriation of $50,000 to beused bv Langley for the developmentof aeronautics. 2IO Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER. Bell {right) watches intently as the DH4 rushes toward him over Baddeck Bay. Risingon steel -planes or hydrofoils as its airplane propellers give it velocity, the odd-lookingvessel (inset in circle) gains speed as its water resistance decreases. It set a 1920 speed record of 71 miles per hour Langleys full scale model, carry-ing a pilot, fell into the Potomac onits trial in 1903, and the wholeproject dissolved in ridicule. How-ever, soon after this the Wrightbrothers made their epochal flightat Kitty-Hawk, the first man-carry-ing flight of a controlled events further confirmed theabiding interest in aviation of Alex-ander Graham Bell. For years Bell had been studyingthe flight of kites at his summerhome, Beinn Bhreagh, in CapeBreton Island on the Bras he considered the best approachto the problem of aviation. By 1901he was working with a tetrahedralform of kite structure, a form which gave stability. This work wasgreatly expanded in
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