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How Did Aircraft Photography Develop?
FIGURE 9.1 The
earliest surviving aerial
photograph, taken of
Boston in 1860. (Source:
Boston Public Library)
FIGURE 9.2 “San
Francisco in Ruins” kite
aerial photo taken in
1906. (Source: Library
of Congress, Prints and
Photographs Division
[LC-USZC4-3870 DLC])
Flying with an aircraft started with the first flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903. In 1908, a passenger aboard an
aircraft was able to capture aerial imagery for the first time over France. By
the time of World War I, aerial photography from an airplane was commonly
used for mapmaking and planning of military tactics. Aerial photography of
the battlefields allowed for the patterns of trenches to be determined, troop
movements and encampments to be plotted, and the location of artillery or
How Did Aircraft Photography Develop?
FIGURE 9.1 The
earliest surviving aerial
photograph, taken of
Boston in 1860. (Source:
Boston Public Library)
FIGURE 9.2 “San
Francisco in Ruins” kite
aerial photo taken in
1906. (Source: Library
of Congress, Prints and
Photographs Division
[LC-USZC4-3870 DLC])
Flying with an aircraft started with the first flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903. In 1908, a passenger aboard an
aircraft was able to capture aerial imagery for the first time over France. By
the time of World War I, aerial photography from an airplane was commonly
used for mapmaking and planning of military tactics. Aerial photography of
the battlefields allowed for the patterns of trenches to be determined, troop
movements and encampments to be plotted, and the location of artillery or