Date	Age	City	State	Event
8/20/1832	0	Jefferson	NH	Born
1/1/1847	15			Left NH for Boston - Apprentice to shoe maker
1/1/1850	18		NH	Became ill returned to home
1/1/1852	20			Started calling himself Professor Lowe
1/1/1855	23			Constructed a balloon to study the atmosphere
2/14/1855	23			Married Leontine
1/1/1856	24			Bought first balloon - it was too small
1/1/1857	25			Invented many things: Altimeter for measuring altitude without a horizon, built largest aerostat to that date
1/1/1859	27	Cincinnati	OH	Balloon flight from Cincinnati to South Carolina at start of Civil War. Captured as northern spy. Flew 900 miles in 9 hours
1/1/1860	28			Invited to Philadelphia
1/1/1860	29		SC	Balloon called New York mothballed
1/1/1861	29			First telegraph from a balloon to the ground. Chief of Army Aeronautic Section. Invented system of signalling ground from balloon - later used in Brazil
1/1/1862	30	Norristown	PA	Invented ice machine
1/15/1913	81	Pasadena	CA	Died