In the interview linked above they talk about the first and second photos taken from balloons. Below is the earliest surviving, but the second photo taken from a balloon. It's titled City of Boston as the Flying Goose sees it by James Wallace Black 1860.
This is a relatively old Science Friday , but I found it while researching scientific ballooning for a lecture I'm giving tomorrow. It's an interview with Richard Holmes about his book, Falling Upwards: How we took to the air. It's really a great book and I'd also suggest checking out his other books as well. In there Richard has amazing stories about the popularity of ballooning and balloon exhibitions, fascinating stories of scientists risking their lives to collect data and push the boundaries of human exploration, and some very cool science/art collaborations. In the interview linked above they talk about the first and second photos taken from balloons. Below is the earliest surviving, but the second photo taken from a balloon. It's titled City of Boston as the Flying Goose sees it by James Wallace Black 1860. They also talked about how ballooning inspired many science fiction writers, including Edgar Allen Poe. Poe carried off a similar hoax to that of the War of the Worlds, publishing fictitious journals of an amazing balloon journey. I might have to spend the day reading these journals... all in the name of preparing for my lecture of course :)
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