The first aerial photographs were taken by the balloonist Nadar
James Wallace Black took the oldest surviving aerial photographs, also from a balloon.
Arthur Batut experimented with kite aerial photography, followed by many others.
high-quality photographs of Boston taken with this method by William Abner Eddy in became famous.
Amedee Denisse equipped a rocket with a camera and a parachute in 1888, and Alfred Nobel also used rocket photography in 1897.