The Origins of Real Time Aerial Reconnaissance - Telegraph from a Balloon @WirelessMuseum
The Origins of Real Time Aerial Reconnaissance - Telegraph from a Balloon @WirelessMuseum
Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 53 minutes ago
Two technologies came together, almost by accident, during the U.S. Civil War, to create real time military aerial reconnaissance. Join historian Chris Lynn as he tells the story of how the Telegraph went aloft the during the U.S. Civil War, providing real time aerial reconnaissance under battle conditions for the first time.

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