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From Ironclads to the Dreyse Needle Gun, these inventions forever changed the world of warfare.

History Book Lessons: First "Spy Satellites" Were Civil War Balloons On June 16, 1861, at the invitation of the War Department, Lowe ascended in Enterprise 500 feet above the capital, telegraphing U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in the White House: “This point of observation commands an area nearly 50 miles in diameter." Heres What You Need To Remember: The principles behind balloon observation endured - even though the practice itself was criminally underused by the Union Army. A week after...