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| Picture No | 10642877 |
| Date | 1914 |
| Description | German military rocket camera, WW1 |
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A German military rocket camera with a Zeiss lens being fired into the air in the early weeks of the First World War. It was designed to map enemy territory to facilitate invasion. When the photograph has been taken it comes back to earth by parachute.
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| Source | Unattributed photograph in The Bystander, 16 September 1914, p550 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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