Lowe, Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine

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Lowe, Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine

Name: Lowe, Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Years: 1831-1913 Nationality: American Remarks: Became of the earliest military airmen in the United States, using hydrogen balloons to observe Confederate troops for the Union army during the American Civil War.

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• June 17, 1861 Thaddeus Lowe ascends in the balloon Enterprise 500 feet above the Columbia Armory in Washington D.C., and uses telegraph equipment in the balloon to send the world's first air-to-ground telegram to President Abraham Lincoln^[1].

[edit] Sources

• Wikipedia entry for Thaddeus S. C. Lowe

• Gas Balloons: View From Above the Civil War Battlefield

• Thaddeus Lowe Website

[edit] References

1. ↑ Thaddeus Lowe Website