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Created page with "Teisserenc de Bort designed and built meteorological recording instruments and sent them aloft on balloons and kites of his own design and modification. On 9 September 1899, he had come briefly into the public eye when one of his kite flights -- a large kite carrying a meteorograph and ten other "helping-kites" supporting the tethering cable --- broke free and, trailing 7 kilometers of cable, cut a narrow but astonishing swath through Paris, where it stopped traffic, di..."
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