The first aerial photographs were taken in 1858 by the balloonist Nadar; in 1860 James Wallace Black took the oldest surviving aerial photographs, also from a balloon. As … See more

Neubronner's invention was at least partially motivated by the prospect of military applications. At the time photographic aerial … See more

In the 1967 episode "The Bird Who Knew Too Much" of the television series The Avengers, foreign spies use pigeon photography to obtain photographs of a secret British base, and a talking parrot to smuggle the information out of the country. The United States See more

• A YouTube user "newpigeonguy" demonstrates application of the harness and several videos thus obtained.
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In 1903 Julius Neubronner, an apothecary in the German town of Kronberg near Frankfurt, resumed a practice begun by his father half a century earlier and received prescriptions from a sanatorium in nearby Falkenstein via pigeon post. He delivered urgent … See more

Despite the War Ministry's position immediately after the First World War, in 1932 it was reported that the German army was training pigeons for photography, and that the German … See more

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• Brons, Franziska (2006), "Bilder im Fluge: Julius Neubronners Brieftaubenfotografie", … See more