- History Date
- Mar 13, 1886
Albert W. Stevens, in full Albert William Stevens, (born March 13, 1886, Belfast, Maine, U.S.—died March 26, 1949, Redwood City, California), U.S. Army officer, balloonist, and early aerial photographer who took the first photograph of Earth’s curvature (1930) and the first photographs of the Moon’s shadow on the Earth during a solar eclipse (1932). On November 11, 1935, Stevens made a record balloon ascent with Captain (later Lieutenant General) Orvil Anderson at Rapid City, South Dakota, attaining a height of 72,395 feet (22,066 metres). That altitude record was unequaled until 1956.
Albert W. Stevens | American aerial photographer
Albert W. Stevens, in full Albert William Stevens, (born March 13, 1886, Belfast, Maine, U.S.—died March 26, 1949, Redwood City, California), U.S. Army officer, balloonist, and early aerial photographer who took the first photograph of Earth’s curvature (1930) and the first photographs of the Moon’s shadow on the Earth during a solar eclipse (1932). On November 11, 1935, Stevens made a record balloon ascent with Captain (later Lieutenant General) Orvil Anderson at Rapid City, South Dakota, atta
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