White City in the Sky Archives - Chip Jacobs https://chipjacobs.com/tag/white-city-in-the-sky/ Author & Journalist Tue, 22 Oct 2019 23:28:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 Incredible home movie by the grandfather of Thaddeus Lowe https://chipjacobs.com/incredible-home-movie-by-the-grandfather-of-thaddeus-lowe-creator-of-the-mt-lowe-railway-an-endeavor-jules-vern-ian-dimensions/ https://chipjacobs.com/incredible-home-movie-by-the-grandfather-of-thaddeus-lowe-creator-of-the-mt-lowe-railway-an-endeavor-jules-vern-ian-dimensions/#respond Tue, 22 Oct 2019 23:24:16 +0000 http://34.168.138.187/?p=81094 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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