Last week, we looked at Thaddeus S. C. Lowe’s need for help from the Washington Navy Yard mechanics to make his balloons a going concern. There was one problem with their solution, however: It was heavy. The boxes required to create hydrogen gas to fill the balloons had to be structurally sound on the outside […]

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I am always trying to connect my two interests of Capitol Hill and airships. Sometimes even with some success. Sometimes, it takes a little more work. Like today. Thaddeus S. C. Lowe was one of the country’s most famous balloonists at the outset of the Civil War, and so it was no surprise that he […]