Title: Balloon entitled the City of New York Description: The balloon entitled the City of New York (or the Great Western) designed by Professor T. S. C. Lowe (Thaddeus Sobieski Carlincourt Lowe; 1832-1913), American aeronaut, scientist and inventor, which was intended to make a transatlantic crossing from New York to Spain, a small side-wheeler steamboat suspended from the airbag as a would a wicker basket, so that, should the if the balloon went flabby in mid-ocean, the passengers could proceed by ship; the protuberance at the right-end of the vessel is not a gigantic foghorn but a rudder; several New York financiers contributed to the construction of this airship, but it was never completed due to a series of misfortunes, albeit Lowe did go on to create for the U.S. Army Signal Corps a series of balloons that were used by military observers during the American Civil War; aeronautics; Location: New York, New York, 1859 Keywords: airships, balloons, lighter-than-air flights, transatlantic crossings Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1575 x 2564 (4.04 MPixels) (1.63) Print Size: 13.3 x 21.7 cm; 5.3 x 8.5 inches File Size: 11.57 MB (12,135,638 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000095745 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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