Frederic C. Beil
Titles appearing in SciTech Book News — June 2007
The balloonist; the story of T.S.C. Lowe — inventor, scientist, magician, and father of the U.S. Air Force.
Poleskie, Steve.
Frederic C. Beil, ©2007 338 p. $24.95 TL620
1-929490-27-5
Using the genre of the historical novel, artist and writer Pleskie (emeritus Cornell U.) tells how Lowe (1832-1913) convinced the US government shortly into the Civil War, to use the balloons he had developed to observe enemy operations and the course of battles. He also describes Lowe's contributions to meteorology, cartography, literary science, aerial photography, metallurgy, and railroading. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
