Thaddeus S. C. Lowe was the director of America's first air corp. Nay — the world's first air corp. Professor TSC Lowe invented an Ice Machine and was the first person to ship Texas Long Horn beef from Texas directly to restaurants in New York. He was involved in the first building in the world to be fully lit by gaslight, owned many businesses and factories, friend to Presidents, an inventor with over 30 patents and a resident of my home town: Norristown, PA.