Thaddeus S. C. Lowe's gas balloon <i>City of New York</i>, built in 1859 at Hoboken, New Jersey in which Lowe proposed to make the trans-Atlantik voyage. Diameter 130 feet, height from boat to valve 200 feet, gas capacity 725,000 cubic feet, lifting power 22 1/2 tons, gondola accomodation capacity 6 persons, equipment included a Francis metallic lifeboat, named <i>Leontine</i> in honor to Mrs. Lowe, suspended under the gondola by two fixed ladders and carrying hand-driven propeller and sails, parachutes for dropping mail and messages, drags, anchors, buoys, sounding line and windlass, meteorological, nautical and navigating instruments, heating apparatus, lanterns, signal lights, and a large supply of provisions (See F. Stansbury Haydon: <i>Military Ballooning During the Early Civil War</i>, JHU Press, 2000, p. 157ff <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.fr/books?id=Z-us-l3qOVwC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;hl=fr#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">[1]</a>).
before 1923 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1923-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1923-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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