How Civil War balloons actually worked

Опубликовано: 21 Март 2021
на канале: Phil Edwards

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Civil War balloons weren't just a novelty - they were a case study in problem solving.

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Thaddeus Lowe and his Civil War balloons seem like an oddity, but they served a real purpose and changed the shape of reconnaissance during the Civil War. But I was curious - how did these things actually work?

Here's some links:

This was the big, epic, fantastic ballooning book I read. You can read it at archive.org for free (with an account).
https://archive.org/details/militaryb...

This is the battlefield I checked out.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/vi...

Here's the Navy balloon history film I pulled clips from. I actually got a bit jealous at what a good job they did covering the weird methods of Thaddeus Lowe: https://archive.org/details/HistoryOf...