by means of a universal joint, the instrument will be pre 
vented from revolving on its vertical axis" (Figure 22). 
What Maul was describing was none other than a camera with a 
stabilizing gyroscope--the granddaddy of the gyro-stabilized torquer 
mount used extensively today for aerial photographic equipment. 
In putting his idea into practice, Maul started with a small 
camera, about the size of a Rolliflex, and by 1912, he had worked 
up to a 90-pound system including an 8 x 10 view camera and gyro, 
which he succeeded in boosting to what was then the phenominal height 
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of 2,600 feet (Figures 23, 24 25). 
PHOTOGRAPHY t FOR THE BIRDS 
The first man to recognize the value of a "bird's eye in the sky" 
was the alert, intelligent pilot of a unique cargo ship his name 
was Noah, and his ship was the Ark (Figure 26)i 
"And he stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent 
forth the dove out of the ark and the dove came in to him 
in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf 
plucked off (Figure 27); so Noah knew that the waters were 
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abated from off the earth."