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There’s a gentle irony about some of the oldest human-made flying objects in the
National Air and Space Museum’s collection—they probably never flew and certainly
never will. They’re Chinese kites that were displayed at the great 1876 Philadelphia
exposition, which celebrated the nation’s first 100 years. Thirty-seven countries
participated. China sent a grand pavilion to show itself off, and the kites were one of the
attractions. “The kites
were created for the exhibition. China had a huge space and they were representing the
entire country,” says paper conservator Amanda Malkin, to whom the kites owe their
future. “They sent the best things they had.”
“Kites were the first flying objects crafted by human hands,” writes National Air and
Space curator Tom Crouch in his 2004 book Wings: A History of Aviation from Kites to the
Space Age. “Kites were used for everything from fishing to signalling. They carried lights,
noise makers, and pyrotechnics aloft at night to frighten enemy troops, and there is every
reason to accept the validity of Chinese and Japanese tales, and the testimony of Marco
Polo, suggesting that the first humans to venture aloft did so aboard large kites.”
Following the 1876 exposition, several of the countries’ displays were simply packed up
and shipped to Washington for donation to the Smithsonian Institution. Forty-three kites
became part of the collection of the National Museum of Natural History. Twenty of them
migrated to the National Air and Space Museum, then called the National Air Museum and
housed in a structure behind the Smithsonian Castle known as the “Tin Shed.” In the
1930s, they were put on display.
I think that that being on display also led to the kites’ near destruction. They were on
view for about 30 years until the 1960s. The kites in the Museum’s collection were in
terrible condition when Malkin came to work on them at the conservation lab at the
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in northern Virginia.

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