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T.S. Lowe Ascent
Society: AIAA Main Category: Aerospace & Aviation Sub Category: Frontiers of Knowledge Era: DateCreated: 1861 National Mall at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum Washington, D.C. State: Zip: Country: USA Website: https://www.aiaa.org/uploadedFiles/About_AIAA/News_Room/BalloonHistoricSite.pdf Creator: Lowe, T.S.

T.S.C. Lowe’s Observation Flight

YearAdded:
2010
Image Credit: Image Caption: View of balloon ascension. Prof. Thaddeus Lowe observing the Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks from his balloon "Intrepid" on the north side of the Chicahominy. Era_date_from:
Hacienda La Esperanza Sugar Mill Steam Engine
Society: ASME Main Category: Mechanical Sub Category: Steam Era: 1860-1869 DateCreated: 1861 Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico Manatí State: PR Zip: 00617 Country: USA Website: http://www.asme.org/about-asme/history/landmarks/topics-m-z/mechanical-power-production-steam/-35-hacienda-la-esperanza-sugar-mill-steam-engine, https://www.asme.org/getmedia/60f1d4d5-215e-4334-8267-a40a7372288a/35_Hacienda_La_Esperanza_Sugar_Mill_Steam_Engine.aspx Creator: Watt, James , Newcomen, Thomas

The La Esperanza sugar mill steam engine is one of the few remaining American links to the pioneer beam engines of the English inventors Thomas Newcomen (1712) and James Watt (1769). The engine was built in 1861 in Cold Spring, New York, by the West Point Foundry. The general arrangement and details, including the Gothic embellishment, are typical of machinery of the period. The straight-line motion of the piston rod is accommodated to the arc of the moving beam end by a parallel motion. Watt regarded this ingenious linkage as the invention of which he was most proud.

YearAdded:
1979
Image Credit: Public Domain (National Park Service) Image Caption: Hacienda La Esperanza Sugar Mill Steam Engine Era_date_from: 1861
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Hacienda La Esperanza Sugar Mill Steam Engine

The La Esperanza sugar mill steam engine is one of the few remaining American links to the pioneer beam engines of the English inventors Thomas Newcomen (1712) and James Watt (1769). The engine was built in 1861 in Cold Spring, New York, by the West Point Foundry. The general arrangement and…

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T.S. Lowe Ascent

T.S.C. Lowe’s Observation Flight

Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe demonstrated the use of a hydrogen-filled balloon in aerial reconnaissance through a series of tethered ascents in June, 1861 in front of…

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