Albert William Stevens [SEP] place of death
Albert William Stevens
Albert William Stevens (March 13, 1886 – March 26, 1949) was an officer in the United States Army Air Corps, balloonist, and aerial photographer.
Biography.
He was born on March 13, 1886 in Belfast, Maine. He graduated from the University of Maine.
While flying over South America in 1930, Stevens took the first photograph of the Earth in a way that the horizon's curvature is visible. To cut through haze, Stevens often employed infrared-sensitive
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