The City of Fairfax is the place to be this Saturday, April 29, for the 17th annual Fairfax Civil War Day. Attendees will experience American Civil War camp life and enjoy a variety of living ...

Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, “Report Submitted to Secretary of War Stanton, May 26, 1863,” in The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, ser. 3, vol.

Download this Thaddeus S C Lowe Was A American Civil War Aeronaut Scientist And Inventor He Invented The Water Gas Process By Which Large Amounts Of Hydrogen Gas Could Be Produced From Steam And ...

Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images Thaddeus S. C. Lowe was hired by Abraham Lincoln to head the Union Army’s aeronautics division. His primary task was to investigate the use of hot air ...

Below: NASA’s Jim Green (dressed as Civil War balloonist Thaddeus Lowe) and his gondola were digitally added to this 360-degree panorama taken from an aerostat balloon over Edwards Ferry ...

On June 16, 1861, inventor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe (1832-1913) sent a telegraph from his hot air balloon flying above the Constitution Mall in Washington D.C. to President Abraham Lincoln, to prove ...

On June 16, 1861, inventor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe (1832-1913) sent a telegraph from his hot air balloon flying above the Constitution Mall in Washington D.C. to President Abraham Lincoln, to prove ...

10 a.m. Camps Open – Civil War Balloon Inflation with Thaddeus Lowe 10:30 a.m. Beginners Boot Camp – Youth Program – 17th Virginia Infantry, Co. D, and 28th Massachusetts Infantry, Co. B ...

At the time, balloonist Thaddeus Lowe was testing whether his hot air balloon could be used to see Confederate troop movements from miles away. His friend Henry wrote several letters to the Secretary ...

Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe was born in 1832 in Jefferson Mills, New Hampshire. Curious and intellectual, Lowe would make a success of himself despite lacking formal education.