Albert William Stevens
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| Born | March 13, 1886 Belfast, Maine |
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| Died | March 26, 1949 Redwood City, California |
Albert William Stevens (born March 13, 1886 in Belfast, Maine[1], United States - died March 26, 1949 in Redwood City, California) was a US Army officer, balloonist and aerial photographer. He took the first photograph of the Earth in a way that the horizon's curvature is visible in 1930 and the first photograph of the Moon's shadow projected onto the Earth during a solar eclipse in 1932.
[edit] External links
- Record Balloon Flights - The Race to the Stratosphere
- The Explorer I crew - Major William Kepner, Captain Albert Stevens, and Captain Orvil Anderson, on July 28, 1934
[edit] References
- ^ Gannon, Charles (2006-01-06). LTC Albert W. Stevens (HTML). Find a Grave. Find A Grave, Inc.. Retrieved on 2008-03-14.
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