Did you know that the first ever aerial photograph of an American city is of Boston back in 1860?
The photo was captured from 2,000 feet from a hot air balloon by James Wallace Black and was titled: “Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It”.
However, the first real photograph was taken in 1826 when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took a picture out of his window. It took more than 30 years for someone to put these two inventions together to bring us the world’s first photo from the air.
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