Article: A kite with a motor: Glenn Martin started making flying machines when he was just a young boy.(Biography)

The floor was crunchy with scraps of paper, and the open glue pot filled the room with a heavy, stale odor. Glenn Martin didn't notice. All the six-year-old thought about was finishing his kite.

Made of brown paper and thin twigs, the narrow box--as tall as he was--didn't look like the diamond-shaped kites the other boys in Liberal, Kansas, were flying in 1892. But Glenn was sure his kite would fly up among the clouds.

The other kids didn't think so. They laughed at Glenn's strange kite, especially Joe Rankin, a third-grader who bet Glenn it wouldn't get off the ground.

Glenn agreed to race his kite against Joe's. The two boys let their kites ...

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