Julius Neubronner’s Miniature Pigeon Camera (1908)
In 1908, Neubronner patented his invention, aerial photography by means of a pigeon photographer, which brought him international notability after he presented it to an interested audience at international expositions in Dresden, Frankfurt and Paris in 1909–1911.
Spectators in Dresden could watch the arrival of the camera-equipped carrier pigeons, and the photos were immediately developed and turned into postcards which could be purchased.
At the 1910 and 1911 Paris Air Shows he received two gold medals, for the method and for the photographs. The invention was tried out for military air surveillance in the First World War and later, but apart from honourable mentions in encyclopedias (Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie) it only caused him expenses
(wikipedia)
Films and pictures of Julius Neubronner here:
http://www.filmarchives-online.eu/hitlist?b_size%3Aint=31&search_holding=all&b_start%3Aint=0&Fulltext=neubronner&select1=all&set_language=de
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