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Albert W. Stevens

American aerial photographer
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Albert William Stevens
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March 13, 1886, Belfast, Maine, U.S.
Died:
March 26, 1949, Redwood City, California (aged 63)
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Albert W. Stevens (born March 13, 1886, Belfast, Maine, U.S.—died March 26, 1949, Redwood City, California) was a 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.

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