LIST OF FIGURES 
FIGURE NO. 
TITLE PAGE 
16 
The aerial panoramic camera invented 
by the Frenchman Triboulet 30 
17 
Jenning's balloon view of Philadelphia - 
July 4th, 1893 32 
18 
Adam's method of photogrammetry 33 
19 
Cailetet's aerial camera for automatically 
registering heights reached by balloons .... 34 
20 
Kite photography - 1895 40 
21 
Ludwig Rahrmann's apparatus for "birds-eye 
photographic views" - 1891 42 
22 
Alfred Maul's gyro-stabilized camera for 
rocket reconnaissance - 1907 44 
23 
Maul's rocket being readied for launch 45 
24 
Countdown blast off parachute recovery. ... 46 
25 
Aerial photograph taken from Maul's rocket 
at an altitude of 600 meters 47 
26 
Noah's Ark 48 
27 
" and lo, in her mouth was an olive 
leaf plucked off " 50 
28 
The first aerial motion picture - 
Centocelle, Italy, April, 1909 52 
29 
Beckwith Havens and his photo-reconnaissance 
aircraft - 1911 54 
30 
The first "still" photography from an 
aircraft Dallas State Fair, 1911 55 
iv 
Ü ■ \ \