Jack Hitt
speaker
849 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Jack Hitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No Union balloon was ever shot down and no balloon corps aeronaut was ever killed.
But strangely, you know,
And this is true of all new sort of inventions.
There's a set of people that just simply don't care how good it is.
They like the old way.
And strangely, despite all of its successes, it just kind of faded from use by 1863 and kind of disappeared.
Like still in the war, it faded from use.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
By the end of 62, it was pretty much out of business.
At this point, you know, the war ends and Thaddeus does what you do in peacetime, which is he decides to make money.
Oh, they do.
That's true.
Very famously, there are those.
He brought gas into the house to heat homes better than firewood, better than coal.
So the Lowe's Gasworks made a fortune.
At night, the balloon would groan and sort of almost breathe.
And occasionally when it did,
sort of a bushel of ice would come crashing down on his head.
And he later discovered as the balloon would go up and down, moisture would freeze on the inside of the balloon.
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