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  2. Abraham Karem - Wikipedia

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    From an early age, he had an innate passion for aeronautics, and at the age of 14, he started building model aircraft. Karem is regarded as the founding father of UAV (drone) technology. He graduated as an aeronautical engineer from the Technion. He built his first drone during the Yom Kippur War for the Israeli Air Force.

  3. History of unmanned aerial vehicles - Wikipedia

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    The first pilotless aircraft were built during World War I. From a suggestion that A. M. Low’s expertise in early television and radio technology be used to develop a remotely controlled pilotless aircraft to attack the Zeppelins [11] [12] a remarkable succession of British drone weapons in 1917 and 1918 evolved.

  4. Unmanned aerial vehicle - Wikipedia

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    An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or unmanned aircraft system (UAS), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft with no human pilot, crew, or passengers onboard. UAVs were originally developed through the twentieth century for military missions too "dull, dirty or dangerous" [ 1 ] for humans, and by the twenty-first, they had become essential ...

  5. History of unmanned combat aerial vehicles - Wikipedia

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    The F-4s were vectored towards the interception and the air-to-air battle was on. No restrictions were placed on the F-4 pilots, the air battle was to be a "no holds barred contest", [9] with the very real possibility of a Phantom being rammed by a UAV as it maneuvered during the dogfight. The first action was a head-on maneuver, as the Phantom ...

  6. Archibald Low - Wikipedia

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    "Professor" Archibald Montgomery Low. Archibald Montgomery Low (17 October 1888 [1] – 13 September 1956 [2]) developed the first powered drone aircraft.He was an English consulting engineer, research physicist and inventor, and author of more than 40 books.

  7. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...

  8. History of technology - Wikipedia

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    The first major technologies were tied to survival, hunting, and food preparation. Stone tools and weapons, fire, and clothing were technological developments of major importance during this period. Human ancestors have been using stone and other tools since long before the emergence of Homo sapiens approximately 300,000 years ago. [5]

  9. Drone - Wikipedia

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    Drone, a member of the Drones Club in P. G. Wodehouse's novels; Drones, intelligent machines in the utopian society The Culture of Iain M. Banks; Drone, a humanoid assimilated by the Borg in Star Trek; Drones, service robots in Silent Running (1972) Drones or yanme'e, fictional species in the Covenant in Halo