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A pigeon with a small camera attached. The trained birds were used experimentally by German citizen Julius Neubronner, before and during the war years, capturing aerial images when a timer mechanism clicked the shutter.

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A pigeon with a small camera attached. The trained birds were used experimentally by German citizen Julius Neubronner, before and during the war years, capturing aerial images when a timer mechanism clicked the shutter. https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/animals-in-world-war-one/

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Early drone testing. It wasn't until digital cameras that it became easy to replace the smallest birds with drone cameras.