Thaddeus Lowe: America's One-Man Air Corps ; Born August 20, 1832, Died January 16, 1913

Chicago, IL: Kingston House, 1958. First Edition. Octavo with half-cloth turquoise boards in red and black pictorial jacket; 189 pages; 22 cm Near fine copy in near fine (-) jacket, now in archival mylar. Hardcover.

"Flamboyant showman, starry-eyed dreamer, dedicated scientist, Thaddeus Lowe can justly be called the Founding Father of the United States Air Force, because of the balloon equipment and aerial reconnaissance techniques he developed during the Civil War." --Jacket.

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