Samuel F. Perkins lived at 14 Rockmere St. He invented the man-carrying kite and continued experimentation on his creation from 1910 through the first World War and into the 1920s. Perkins demonstrated his kites and skills at aeronautical exhibitions across the country. At the 1910 Harvard-Boston Aero Meet in Squantum, “he demonstrated that a man can be sent 2,000 feet in the