The dawn of the drone : from the back-room boys of World War One /
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 Arm...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK ; Havertown, Pennsylvania :
Casemate Publishers,
[2019]
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| Summary: | 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 Professor A. M. Low. The remote control systems for these aircraft and boats were invented at RFC Secret Experimental Works commanded by Professor 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.' |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781612007892 1612007899 |