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Public Domain Review revisits Julius Neubronner's early 1900s pigeon-mounted camera

The Public Domain Review has republished a piece on Dr. Julius Neubronner, a German apothecary who patented a miniature camera harness for carrier pigeons in the early 20th century. The device automatically snapped aerial photographs as the birds flew, producing some of the earliest examples of aerial photography.