13 Aug 2016

Drone History

From This Way Up, 12:03 pm on 13 August 2016
Drone by Adam Rothstein

Drone by Adam Rothstein Photo: Alice Marwick/Bloomsbury

From their early use in the military to train pilots, to taking aerial surveillance snapshots they could bring back to base, the drone's had a varied and interesting history. With new camera technology, real time reconnaissance and weapon targeting's become a reality. Now smartphones have helped turn the drone into a mainstream consumer product. Adam Rothstein's history of drones is called Drone and it's part of the Object Lessons series published by Bloomsbury.

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