Editing Kite aerial photography (section)

==History==
[[File:Henry Wellcome's photographic automatic kite trolley aerial camera deivce used at Jebel Moya, Sudan, 1912-1913. Unknown photographer. The Wellcome Collection, London.jpg|thumb|left|[[Henry Wellcome]]'s photographic automatic kite trolley aerial camera device, used at [[Jebel Moya]], Sudan, 1912–1913]]
[[File:San Francisco in ruin edit2.jpg|thumb|250px|Kite photo by [[George Lawrence (photographer)|George Lawrence]] of San Francisco after the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|earthquake of 1906]]]]
[[File:Kite Photo of Reeds Lake and Ramona Park, Grand Rapids MI. Postcard - 001.jpeg|thumb|250px|Antique postcard of [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]], image taken using a kite]]
The first kite [[Aerial photography|aerial photographs]] were taken by British meteorologist [[Douglas Archibald]] in 1887<ref>Archibald, Douglas (1897). [https://books.google.com/books?id=si7J_vmz76QC "The Story of the Earth's Atmosphere"]. p. 174. Retrieved 2011-04-16.</ref> and by [[Arthur Batut]] in Labruguière (France) in 1888.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/background/history1.html |title=The First Kite Photographs |last=Benton |first=Cris |date=June 25, 2010 |access-date=2011-04-16 |publisher=arch.ced.berkeley.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609184810/http://www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/background/history1.html |archive-date=June 9, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espacebatut.fr/ |title=Arthur Batut Museum |access-date=2008-01-08 |language=fr }}</ref>

Manned kite flying and aerial photography were advanced also by French [[Marcel Maillot]], British [[Robert Baden-Powell]], Americans [[Charles Lamson]] and [[William Abner Eddy]], Australian [[Lawrence Hargrave]] (inventor of [[box kite]] in 1893 and kite train in 1884) and French Captain [[Jacques Theodore Saconney|Saconney]].<ref>See [http://best-breezes.squarespace.com/kite-timeline-1800-1900-ad/ kite timeline 1800-1900] on a website dedicated to kites history.</ref>

A famous aerial photo of [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]] after the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake]] was taken by an early pioneer in KAP, [[George Lawrence (photographer)|George Lawrence]], using a large [[Panoramic photography|panoramic]] camera and stabilizing rig he designed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://robroy.dyndns.info/lawrence/kitelines97.html |title=The Lawrence Captive Airship over San Francisco |access-date=2008-01-08 |last=Baker |first=Simon }}</ref>
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