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Incredible home movie by the grandfather of Thaddeus Lowe

Lowe conducted military reconnaissance from a balloon for Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. He perfected techniques to improve turn-of-the-century refrigeration. He helped found Caltech. But it was his daring, whimsical railway and resort into the local mountaintops that was a mind-blower of Jules-Vern-ian ambitions

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