10 Facts About Baden Baden-Powell

Baden Baden-Powell's mother, Henrietta Grace nee Smyth, was a daughter of Admiral William Henry Smyth, and was the third wife of Rev Prof.

Baden Baden-Powell was a gifted musician and artist, but when her husband died she was left with eight small children - Baden only three weeks old - and four older step-children, so she had to be "tough".

Baden Baden-Powell was in the Relief Column that in May 1900 relieved the siege of Mafeking, where his elder brother was in command.

Baden Baden-Powell was one of several notables expressing interest in the Aeronautical Navigation Conference at the 1893 World's Fair.

In 1894, Baden-Powell made the first British military balloon flight.

Baden Baden-Powell wrote, "Ballooning as a Sport", published in 1907 by William Blackwood and Sons.

Baden Baden-Powell invented a twelve-foot man-carrying kite that he flew at Whitton Park, Hounslow, England, and later a three-kite system that he called the Levitor.

Baden Baden-Powell helped Marconi in Newfoundland in his efforts to transmit and receive radio messages across the Atlantic, using Baden-Powell's man-carrying kite to lift the radio aerial.

Baden Baden-Powell obtained one of the first British patents for a television system, "An electrical method of reproducing distant scenes visually", published 19 April 1921.

Baden Baden-Powell can be considered the founder of Air Scouting even though he thought it was hardly feasible to have special 'Air Scouts'.