Album : Experiments 1901
This is an album of handwritten photographic experiments in aerodynamics compiled in 1901 by the Italian aviation pioneer Cosmo Canovetti, held by the Smithsonian Libraries. The pages pair mounted photographs of kite-like models, sails and a test rig with French and Italian captions recording angles, exposure times and wind conditions. A designer might take from them the sparse, diagrammatic quality of early flight research, with faint pale tones, pencilled annotations and arrows that mark forces and angles.
