Episode 60 Big Ideas: Professor TSC Lowe and John Cleves Symmes Jr

The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families

The Past and The Curious History Podcast for Kids

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🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Professor TSC Lowe (who was not a professor at all) had visions for a transatlantic balloon flight. He never succeeded in that but he did wind up as the Chief Aeronaut of the Balloon Corps during the American Civil War. His vision laid the ground work for Ferdinand Von Zeppelin’s later accomplishments. John Cleves Symmes Jr. popularized a theory known as the Hollow Earth Theory. He believed that the earth was hollow and contained other habitable worlds. Was he right? He was worse than right. He was wrong. All music, as usual, by Mick Sullivan. The writing and voices too.

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0:00.0	Well, howdy, I'm MixEleven and this is my show.
0:08.3	I call it the Past and the Curious, and that's what other people call it too, so we all
0:13.6	agree.
0:14.6	Thank you for joining us if you're new.
0:16.2	I hope you like it.
0:17.5	If you are not new, well let me tell you, I have some big news to share, but I'm not
0:21.9	going to do it until next month.
0:23.8	You're going to have to wait.
0:25.3	We'll mark the fifth year of this show, which we all agree is called the Past and the Curious.
0:31.7	I'll be letting the can out of the bag early for Patreon members, so if you're a member,
0:37.0	stay tuned on there.
0:38.1	If not, just wait until next month, and I think you'll be excited, it's going to be really
0:42.3	really cool.
0:43.5	So this episode is a fun episode.
0:46.4	It's about big ideas, and it's about two people who had big ideas.
0:50.6	One was a good idea, the other, not so much.
0:56.0	But both ideas led to really interesting things, no matter what.
1:00.0	So with that, let's figure it out and get going.
1:10.5	Sometimes you have an idea you believe is so good that you are literally bursting at
1:15.5	the seams.
1:17.0	And Thaddeus Sobiesky Constantine Lowe nearly burst at the seams when he read the weather
1:22.3	report in Cincinnati on April 19th, 1861.
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