Eduard Spelterini

Biography: pioneer Aerial photographer Eduard Spelterini

Biography: pioneer Aerial photographer Eduard Spelterini

Eduard Spelterini (1852 – 1931) was a Swiss pioneer of ballooning and of aerial photography. Spelterini was very talented musically and had such a beautiful voice that he enrolled at the Paris Conservatorium for three years of singing tuition, where he was one of the top students. Then he fell ill with Tuberculosis and the young man was forced into…