The First Drone: Robot History: History Podcast For Kids and Curious Adults

Archytas of Terentum First Drone mathematician, political leader (elected seven times), and philosopher Alive and active during the time of Plato. We know this because he sent a ship to rescue Plato from Syracuse. (not the city → this guy). We only have four fragments of Archytas' work. We mostly rely on writings that took place fifty years after his death to piece together his life. 350 B. C. The first self-propelled flying device Wooden mechanical dove capable of flapping wings and flying 200 Meters using compressed air and steam. These are second-hand reports and many believe pulleys and counterweights were used since the first wind up bird was not invented until a few hundred years later by Hero of Alexandria who will talk about next week-This is only a theory since all records of the event state that-the bird actually flew but with no drawings of the workings of the dove we have to take guesses. Until a clever person or child recreates this original drone using materials and techniques of the times to see what was possible. Bibliography A Brief History of Robot Birds The early Greeks and Renaissance artists had birds on their brains By Jimmy Stamp SMITHSONIANMAG.COM MAY 22, 2013 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Archytas First published Thu Jun 26, 2003; substantive revision Tue Aug 23, 2016 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The First Drone: Robot History: History Podcast For Kids and Curious Adults is an episode from I Can't Believe That Happened History Podcast for Kids by Monica Michelle.

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This episode was published on Mar 13, 2020.

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