# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-abner-eddy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:29:49.339Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-abner-eddy"
name: "William Abner Eddy"
slug: "william-abner-eddy"
description: "William Abner Eddy was an American accountant and journalist famous for his photographic and meteorological experiments with kites. The scientific significance of Eddy's improvements to kite-flying was short-lived, due to the advent of Lawrence Hargrave's rectangular box kites. Nevertheless, in the year following Eddy's death, a train of ten Eddy kites reaching an altitude of 23,385 feet (7,128 m) set a height record for several years."
tagline: "American accountant and journalist (1850–1909)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PicEddyKite.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1850-01-28"
deathDate: "1909-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.337905333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Вільям Абнер Едді"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويليام أبنر إيدي"
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    title: "ويليام ابنر ايدى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Abner_Eddy"
    title: "William Abner Eddy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Abner_Eddy"
    title: "William Abner Eddy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Abner_Eddy"
    title: "William Abner Eddy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Abner_Eddy"
    title: "William Abner Eddy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3501528"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump