Rather than do a very poor job of kite history, I would like to refer you to some excellent kite history sites:

http://www.drachen.org/default.html

http://www.aka.kite.org/

http://www.carnetdevol.org/

http://best-breezes.squarespace.com/

http://www.kitelife.com/

http://robroy.dyndns.info/targetkites/

http://kitepatents.blogspot.com/

Feel free to email us if you have questions. info@thekitemuseum.com

Thank you.