 The article detailed how a university professor ("Clayton") had erected a series of kites and bound them all together to one kite.These kites had no tail, were bowed and diamond-shaped, and were referred to by the article writer as "Malay kites".However, the existence of a Malay-like design may have already been heard of in the United States sometime before the publishing of the article; in the last edition of the "American Boy's Handy Book", another tailless kite is described (there referred to as a "Holland" kite).