![Drawing of an 'aerial torpedo-boat in action.'](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Aerial%20torpedo%20boat%20offered%20to%20Cubans%20San%20Francisco%20Call%2C%20Volume%2080%2C%20Number%20173%2C%2020%20November%201896%20.png?itok=Eq9uzT3m)
Aerial torpedo boat
Drawing of an "aerial torpedo-boat in action" from the San Francisco Call, November 1896
![An American JB-2 buzz bomb on display.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/American%20JB-2%20buzz%20bomb%20in%20NYC%20bond%20drive%201944%20%281%29.jpg?itok=GXW_ezw4)
JB-2 Buzz Bomb
An American JB-2 buzz bomb on display to the public during a war bond drive in New York City in 1944
![Wilfred Stanley Haines painted this image of a bomb raid.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/An%20Observation%20Post-%20Flying%20Bomb%20Raid%2C%201944%20%28Haines%29%282%29.jpg?itok=j5kU4a-T)
"An Observation Post: Flying Bomb Raid"
![This is a 1944 advertisement for the Captain Marvel Buzz Bomb.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Captain%20Marvel%20Buzz%20Bomb%20toy%20%281944%29.jpg?itok=95yBmAxq)
Captain Marvel Buzz Bomb
This 1944 advertisement for the Captain Marvel Buzz Bomb states: "It flies! It soars! It bombs!"
![Workers assemble 'Kettering Bug' or 'Liberty Eagle' flying bombs.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Kettering%20Bugs%20factory%20%281918%29.png?itok=vncuGFlB)
Flying Bomb Factory
![Illustration of Samuel Pierpont Langley's Aerodrome.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Langley%20Aerodrome%20%26%20War%2C%20Daily%20Herald%20Aug%2025%2C%201899%2C%20Delphos%2C%20Ohio.png?itok=0TTurFYs)
Langley's Flying Machine
Newspapers published this illustration of Samuel Pierpont Langley's Aerodrome in 1899.
![Aerodrome No. 5.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Langleys%20Aerdrome%2C%20NY%20World%2C%20Sunday%2C%20May%2017%2C%201896%20%28P.%2017%29.jpg?itok=4Mb3k8Dq)
Aerodrome No. 5
![Essam Attia's poster satirizes a domestic drone program.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Essam%20Attia%20nypd%20drone.jpg?itok=XBvzARaT)
NYPD Drones Poster
![A poster depicting Nazi drones.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/robot%20bomb.png?itok=SiuJZoZ3)
Robot Bomb
A poster depicting Nazi drones during World War II
![This 1960s post card depicts one of the first jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicles.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Ryan%20Firebee%20Jet%20Drone%20postcard%20%28circa%20early%201960s%29.png?itok=12buvbnx)
Ryan Firebee
This 1960s post card depicts one of the first jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicles.
![Workers assemble a Firebee drone.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Teledyne%20Ryan%20Firebee%20UAV.png?itok=PQo7u4oo)
Teledyne-Ryan Firebee
Workers assemble a Firebee drone.
![A 1944 painting by Walter Thomas Monnington.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Tempests%20Attacking%20Flying-Bombs%20%281944%29%20Sir%20Walter%20Thomas%20Monnington%2C%20PRA.jpg?itok=zXBm27eF)
"Tempests Attacking Flying Bombs"
![Poster for the 1950 film 'The Flying Missile.'](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/The%20Flying%20Missile%20%281951%29.jpg?itok=ngTTxtXq)
"The Flying Missile"
![Nazi soldiers roll out a flying bomb.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1975-117-26%2C_Marschflugk%C3%B6rper_V1_vor_Start.jpg?itok=IRMXv5ae)
Fieseler Fi 103
![Samuel Pierpont Langley.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/458px-Samuel_Pierpont_Langley.jpg?itok=y1hZqJVK)
Samuel Pierpont Langley
![General William Mitchell.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/432px-William_Lendrum_Mitchell_%28full_shot%29.jpg?itok=UJtEXYlr)
William "Billy" Mitchell