In case you do not know what a drone is here is a simple explanation. Drones are small aircrafts with the ability to fly unmanned, and are controlled with joysticks or apps for both mobile phones and tablets. Charles Kettering, USA engineer and inventor, is behind the creation of these amazing technological artifact. He created the first drone in 1917, which as known as the “Kettering Bug”. This first stone was a small wooden and paper biplane that could crash into various objects and fly a distance of approximately 75 miles.

Nowadays, these unmanned aircrafts can even fly by themselves without using a global positioning system, or GPS, which allows them to determine their position on any part of the world.

Initially, it was created for military use only. Since they were to finance and develop this technology, it was used to spy and perform attacks. With time and low cost to build drones caused that anyone who had the ability and knowledge to build one for either scientific, commercial, recue or entertainment reasons could do so.

Company´s like Amazon, gained flight rights in the US and used drones to deliver their packages. The Swiss International Airlines, main Swiss airline, experimented with a quadruple drone to deliver packages of 2 pounds, at a 12 miles distance. Facebook also invested in the project. They used a drone that reached 11 miles high with purpose of providing better Internet access in places where it was almost impossible to get. NASA also wants to use drones in their extra planetary researchers and explorations in Mars.

But, not all drones are used so sophisticatedly. During the last Football World Cup in Brazil, they used to show different angles of the game, as no other camera could do. Different restaurants in Singapore use them to deliver orders to their tables.

Drone today have all type of uses, they are used in fabrics, monuments, bridges, to transport medication, capture high resolution images and so much more. There is really no limit to the used of this technology and if used wisely it can help various sectors of our society. This amazing piece of technology will without a doubt change out daily routine like no other.

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