DB Annex

At Night The Glitterng Lights of Fifty-Six Cities Far Below!

The Great Mount Lowe Trip
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Incline
Echo
1894 - World’s largest searchlight delivered to Echo Mountain
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3 levels Circular Bridge
Scenic Mt. Lowe Then and Now
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Railroad Boosters last run 1937
also the last hurrah
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The Angeles National Forest
and Mt. Lowe Committee Volunteer Group's
Annual Mt. Lowe Excursion December 03, 2005
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LA Transit Lines cars awaiting their fate at Wilmington
California Trolleys (fixed)
Harry Marnell (an abundance of California trolley links)
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Savant Passes

Professor Thaddeus S.C. Lowe, known the world over as the discoverer of the formulae for making water gas and artificial ice, famous as an aeronaut during the Civil war, builder of the incline railroad up Mt. Lowe and a pioneer in Southern California enterprises, died at 4:45 o'clock this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Edna Wright, 280 South Euclid Avenue.
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At the time of his death Professor Lowe was working on plans for a dirigible balloon to be operated in Southern California.

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Images of Professor Thaddeus S. Lowe at LoC:

Lowe observing the battle from his balloon Intrepid
Fair Oaks Va. May 31, 1861

Lowe's "Balloon Camp" Gaines Mill, Va., May 1862

Prof. T.S.C. Lowe, Civil War balloonist

Lowe replenishing balloon Intrepid from balloon Constitution

Lowe prepares to ascend