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German pharmacist and inventor Julius Noybronner used carrier pigeons to deliver drugs. But in 1903 he came up with an unusual idea - to use pigeons for aerial photography. Novator has developed a lightweight version of the automatic camera and put it through the leather straps on the pigeon's breast. Despite the tiny size of the device, the pigeons were still hard to fly with them. Birds photographers can rise to a maximum of a hundred-meter vysotu.

The photographs were of good quality and has a high clarity. His invention Noybronner patented in 1908 as "The method and means for photographing landscapes from above." On the photo-exhibition in Dresden in 1909 pigeons - photographers created a furor. All visitors wanted to buy pictures taken by postal golubyami.

The photograph pigeon Frankie. He made almost forty flights with a miniature camera on grudi.

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