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Beschreibung / Hintergrund:
(left) Aerial photograph of the Swedish countryside, taken by Alfred Nobel from a rocket powered camera
(right) Albert Maul's rocket, and
(center) one of Maul's aerial photographs of the German countryside.
The first successful aerial photograph from a rocket mounted camera was taken by the Swedish inventor, Alfred Nobel in 1897. He is best known nowadays for the Nobel prize. In 1906, Albert Maul in Germany, produced a more reliable method by using a rocket propelled by compressed air. His camera took an aerial photograph from a height of 2,600 feet, before being ejected and parachuted back to earth. He had patented the idea of using powder rockets in 1903, and by 1904 was testing gyroscopically-stabilised cameras launched by rockets and recovered by parachute. In 1912 he demonstrated his perfected rocket to the Austrian Army, but by then airplanes were found to be more effective.
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