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Civil War hot air balloons
The hot air balloon was created 1861,the first year of the Civil War.
Thaddeus Lowe made the first balloon in 1861. The biggest hot air balloon could hold 5 people and measured of 32,000 cubic feet.
Lowe and the navy yard