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The Dawn of the Drone - From the Back Room Boys of World War One (Hardcover)
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The Dawn of the Drone - From the Back Room Boys of World War One (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R480
Discovery Miles 4 800
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In the dark days of World War I, when flying machines, radio, and
electronics were infant technologies, the first remotely controlled
experimental aircraft took to the skies and unmanned radio
controlled 40-foot high-speed Motor Torpedo Boats ploughed the seas
in Britain. Developed by the British Army's Royal Flying Corps and
the Royal Navy these prototype weapons stemmed from an early form
of television demonstrated before the war by Prof. A. M. Low. The
remote control systems for these aircraft and boats were invented
at RFC Secret Experimental Works commanded by Prof. Low, which was
part of the organization of 'back-room boys' in the Munitions
Inventions Department. These audacious projects of Low and his
contemporaries led to the hundreds of remotely controlled Queen Bee
aerial targets in the 1930s and hence to all the machines that we
now call 'drones'. Starting well before WWI and, for the lucky
ones, extending well beyond it, the lives of Archibald Low and many
of his contemporaries were extraordinary as were the times they
lived through. They witnessed many dawns, the coming of the oil and
plastics age and of domestic electricity. They experienced vast
social improvements and the pasturing of the working horse in favor
of motor transport. They were around for the first epic aircraft
flights and with the aid of the very technologies that had enabled
the development of drones, they saw air travel transformed from the
precarious to the routine. It is astonishing that the origins of
the first drones are not common knowledge in Britain and that the
achievement of these maverick inventors is not commemorated.
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