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minutes after the kite was launched. It then dropped a small flag to the ground so he would know it was time to bring the kite down. In the decades that followed, photographers all around the world began taking aerial pictures, using all sorts of methods. At the beginning of the 20th century, a photographer by the name of George R. Lawrence designed his own cameras to capture aerial views from balloons, ladders, or high towers. In 1906, he rigged several large kites together to lift a 49-pound camera designed for huge 18%u201d x 48%u201d negatives, and used it to take aerial photos of San Francisco%u2019s devastating earthquake and fire. From a height of approximately 2,000 feet he was able to trigger the camera%u2019s shutter with a long electric wire. That same year, Albert Maul created a rocket propelled by compressed air to make aerial photographs 2,600 feet up. After capturing a photo, his camera was ejected from the rocket and parachuted back to earth. Just three years later, in 1909, Wilbur Wright took aerial images with a motion-picture camera while in an airplane above Centocelli, Italy.The means to create bird%u2019s eye photographs seemed endless. A German apothecary, Julius Neubronner, had been using homing pigeons to deliver medications between his different business locations, when he came up with the idea of attaching a lightweight, time-delayed, miniaA bird%u2019s eye view of San Francisco by George R. Lawrence..Julius Neubronner%u2019s pigeon with a miniature camera.