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	Ferdinand von Zeppelin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf von Zeppelin (July 8, 1838 – March 8, 1917) was the founder of the Zeppelin airship company.
		Ferdinand von Zeppelin was first seen in the balloon camp of Prof.
		Count Zeppelin died in 1917, before the end of World War I.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferdinand_von_Zeppelin (473 words)

	Zeppelin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin became interested in constructing a "dirigible balloon" after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871, where he witnessed the use of French balloons during the siege of Paris.
		Zeppelins are a prop of a modern sub-genre of science fiction that is inspired by the visions of the 1930s.
		Zeppelins were recently used heavily in the Doctor Who episodes Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel, where zeppelins were used in a parallel universe London as a common form of transport.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zeppelin (6264 words)

	Zeppelin
		The term zeppelin refers to a type of rigid airship pioneered by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century.
		Zeppelins are quite distinct from the non-rigid type of airships commonly known as blimps.
		The zeppelin airships were lighter-than-air craft using a rigid frame construction with an aerodynamic outer envelope and several separate balloons called 'cells' containing the lighter-than-air gas hydrogen completely within the frame.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ze/Zeppelin.html (496 words)

	zeppelin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917) was born in Konstanz, Baden on 8 April 1838 and was the first large-scale builder of the rigid dirigbles which eventually became synonymous with his name.
		Zeppelin successfully persuaded the German military of the potential of using airships during wartime.
		Zeppelin aircraft were effectively removed from front line service at Verdun in 1916, as improved Allied aircraft succeeded in achieving a higher destruction rate.
	users.telenet.be /sbt-ypers/zeppelin.html (347 words)

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		Count Ferdinand of Zeppelin is probably one of the most famous pioneers of aviation.
		But as soon as the first Zeppelin flew, the small and potbellied Count who had a bald head and a white monstache was celebrated by everyone.
		On July 8th, 1838 Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin was born in Constance on Lake Constance.
	www.gzg.fn.bw.schule.de /stadt/zeppelin/3e_grafz.htm (359 words)

	Inventor Ferdinand Zeppelin
		Zeppelin, Ferdinand, Graf von (1838-1917), German military officer, who developed the rigid dirigible, a lighter-than-air vehicle that became known as the zeppelin.
		Zeppelin was born in Konstanz and educated at the Ludwigsburg Military Academy and the University of Tübingen.
		The first zeppelin airship consisted of a row of 17 gas cells individually covered in rubberized cloth; the whole was confined in a cylindrical framework covered with smooth surfaced cotton cloth.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/zeppelin.htm (836 words)

	Æ Aeragon - Airships
		Zeppelin developed what can be considered the first truly successful airship and founded a company under his own name to build them.
		Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin served as an attaché in Washington during the American Civil War and he observed first-hand the usefulness of balloons in warfare.
		The zeppelins were the only means of air transportation in that day that could carry that many people successfully and were the earliest form of transatlantic commercial air service.
	www.aeragon.com /air/airship (3607 words)

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		Count von Zeppelin joined the Army at 16 and earned his commission by the time he was 20.
		In 1890, Zeppelin retired from military service as a brigadier of cavalry, but the 52 year old count was not ready to retire completely.
		Count von Zeppelin died in 1917 without seeing his vision of regular airship passenger lines come to reality.
	www.gwpda.org /bio/xyz/zeppelin.html (446 words)

	Zeppelin Biographie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich von Zeppelin was born in the city of Constance on July 8, 1838.
		Count Zeppelin, his sister Eugenia and his brother Eberhard spent their childhood in the manorial domain Girsberg near Constance.
		In 1853 Count Zeppelin left Girsberg to enrol in the Realschule in Cannstatt near Stuttgart, a year later he changed to the Polytechnical Academy in Stuttgart.
	www.uni-konstanz.de /FuF/Philo/Geschichte/Zeppelin/english/bio.htm (230 words)

	Alphabetilately: Z is for Zeppelin Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, inventor of the concept, was a colorful, almost fanatical character who spent his entire sizeable fortune on building and promoting his immense airships, but it was Hugo Eckener, Zeppelin designer, pilot, and enthusiast, who made Zeppelins household names around the world in the 1930's.
		Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917) and Hugo Eckener (1868-1954)
		Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (photo inset on the card above) was a man obsessed with his vision of airflight in the enormous, hydrogen-filled dirigibles he invented and built from 1900 until his death in 1917.
	alphabetilately.com /Z.html (1132 words)

	The Zeppelin
		Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, was the world's most successful builder of rigid airships.
		Several zeppelins were also lost because of bad weather, and 17 were shot down because they could not climb as fast as the fighters.
		At the end of the war, the German zeppelins that had not been captured were surrendered to the Allies by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, and it looked like the Zeppelin company would soon disappear.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Lighter_than_air/zeppelin/LTA8.htm (1123 words)

	Ferdinand, Graf von Zeppelin, b
		Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was the inventor of the rigid airship, or dirigible balloon.
		Zeppelin went to the United States in 1863 to work as a military observer for the Union army in the American Civil War and later explored the headwaters of the Mississippi River, making his first balloon flight while he was in Minnesota.
		By his death in 1917, he had built a zeppelin fleet, some of which were used to bomb London during World War I. However, they were too slow and explosive a target in wartime and too fragile to withstand bad weather.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Dictionary/Zeppelin/DI48.htm (223 words)

	RedOrbit - Space - Revived Zeppelin Airship Delivered to First User (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The granddaughter of the original airship's inventor, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, was on hand as Japan's Nippon Airship Corporation took delivery of the 247-foot ship, destined for sightseeing and advertising flights in Japan and a starring role at the 2005 world's fair in the city of Aichi.
		The original era of the zeppelin ended when the Hindenburg caught fire on landing at Lakehurst, N.J. in 1937 - killing 35 of the 96 people on board and dashing the dream of the airship as a means of transportation.
		Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik started building the new dirigibles, which are about one-third the length of the Hindenburg, in 1996, but the sale to the Nippon Airship Corporation - sealed in March - was its first commercial deal.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display/?id=64165 (515 words)

	The Ultimate Zeppelin - American History Information Guide and Reference
		A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship (or dirigible) pioneered by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century.
		Construction of the first Zeppelin airship began in 1899 in a floating assembly hall on Lake Constance in the Bay of Manzell, Friedrichshafen.
		However the disastrous accident of the British passenger airship R101 in 1931 led the Zeppelin company to reconsider the safety of hydrogen-filled vessels, and the design was abandoned in favour of a new project.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/LZ1 (5369 words)

	The UnMuseum - Hindenburg
		In the space of 37 seconds the mighty zeppelin was destroyed in a fire that killed a third of its crew and passengers and left spectators crying in horror.
		Zeppelin became so well-known for this type of dirigible that his name soon became synonymous with that type of airship.
		The Zeppelin was designed to be secured by its nose to a mooring mast that would allow the airship to move so that the nose always pointed into the wind.
	www.unmuseum.org /hindenburg.htm (2286 words)

	Zeppelin-Crazy Town
		Friedrichshafen, which was put on the map by Count von Zeppelin and now holds title to the companies that made up his industrial empire, is building a new zeppelin.
		The Zeppelin NT revives the spirit of the legendary airships developed by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
		By the time of the Hindenburg disaster, 119 zeppelins had lifted off from these shores, including the Los Angeles, built for the U.S. Navy as a reparation for World War I. During World War II Friedrichshafen was flattened by Allied bombing and zeppelins faded from use.
	www.corkscrew-balloon.com /01/05/3eur/wsj-zepp.html (1456 words)

	Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin Biography / Biography of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin History of Invention Biography
		The son of German nobility, Zeppelin entered the military and, as was expected of aristocrats of the time, served in the American Civil War.
		Completed in 1900, the LZ-1 (Luftschiff Zeppelin 1) proved a failure because, despite its length of 400 feet (122 m) and diameter of 38 feet (11.59 m), it could lift a payload of only 660 pounds (299.64 kg) and was not very maneuverable.
		Zeppelin realized he needed some other market for his creation, so he turned to public transportation.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-count-ferdinand-von-zeppelin-woi (741 words)

	The First Zeppelins
		As the building had progressed, the Count was often made the object of ridicule and jokes.
		First, the Count reasoned that a solid outer shell would allow an airship to travel at much greater speeds with out worrying about air pressure buckling in the nose of the airship.
		As the Count and his workers had the airship towed out of it's hanger on the water, the crowd got it's first glimpse of the LZ 1.
	www.ciderpresspottery.com /ZLA/firstzeps/First_Zeps.html (584 words)

	Untitled Document
		The Count Von Zeppelin was one of the few that was able to build a rigid structure capable of flying.
		But at that time Zeppelin airships had become so popular, making the German citizens believe that they were the owners of the air space, that public fund collects were raised, allowing the continuity of the enterprise.
		Before the start of the 1st World War, the Zeppelins had a record of 1600 hours of flights, 32,000 passengers transported in 7 airships, at a mean velocity of 20 km/hour and 20 passengers per airship.
	www.castelloscollection.com.ar /zeppelin_history_eng.htm (746 words)

	Ferdinand von Zeppelin
		Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin graduated from Ludwigsburg Military Academy and received his civil engineering degree from the University of Tubigen.
		During the decade of the 1860s he was assigned to observe the military use of balloons in the U.S. and Europe, which convinced him of the military and commercial value of airship operations.
		The success of military and civilian Zeppelins were to have a lasting effect on airpower strategists and Count von Zeppelin will always be remembered for the graceful mammoths of the sky which he pioneered.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aerojava/vzeppelin.htm (354 words)

	Airship Web Resources for Students
		The rigid airship, pioneered by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, was the chief weapon employed against Britain until mid-1917.
		ZEPPELIN was the name given to the duralumin-internal-framed, dirigibles invented by the persistent Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
		While the Germans had the capability to bomb England using Zeppelins from the start of the war, the Kaiser had banned this since he considered England as another "Christian nation" and viewed the bombing of civilians as less than gentlemanly.
	www.cdli.ca /CITE/airships.htm (1228 words)

	GZtext
		If for no other reason, the flight should be remembered as a tribute to Count Zeppelin who in 1910 envisioned the use of airships in polar exploration.
		The suggestion that Zeppelin airships might be useful for polar exploration was passed to Zeppelin from the Norwegian explorer and statesman Fridtjof Nansen who had followed closely the accounts of the Andrée and Wellman flights.
		In 1910 Count Zeppelin, Professors Hugo Hergesell and Adolf Miethe, and Crown Prince Henry of Prussia led what they termed a "study-trip" to Spitzbergen to explore the use of airships in the polar regions.
	home.att.net /~bgrhodes/GZtext.html (1066 words)

	Propaganda Postcards of the Great War, Zeppelin attacks (1)
		Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a brigadier general of Cavalry retired from the army in 1891 and devoted himself to the study of aeronautics.
		In the early part of the war Zeppelins were used for bombing raids.
		Three more Zeppelins were destroyed by ground forces over the next two weeks.
	www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com /zeppelin_attacks(1).html (151 words)

	Prussian Steam Zeppelin
		The Count and his research team then progressed to using internal frames and employing hydrogen to provide lift to their creations.
		The Count is currently working on finding a better means of propulsion for his 'zeppelins', one that will be a more serious match for the Sorcerous Engines of Bayern.
		Although this is rarely acknowledged by Bayern, it is probable that Count von Zeppelin's long-time interest and work at least inspired the creation of the Bavarian airships.
	www.tlucretius.net /Sophie/Castle/SteamZep.html (451 words)

	Milestone For New Zeppelin - CBS News
		The granddaughter of the original airship's inventor, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, was on hand as Japan's Nippon Airship Corporation took delivery of the 247-foot ship, which is destined for sightseeing and advertising flights in Japan and a starring role at the 2005 world's fair in the city of Aichi.
		The original era of the zeppelin ended when the Hindenburg caught fire on landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1937 - killing 35 of the 96 people on board and dashing the dream of the airship as a mode of transportation.
		The journey comes 75 years after the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin flew from Friedrichshafen to Tokyo.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/06/12/tech/main622782.shtml (634 words)

	Steinhausen Aerostat Automatic Pilot Watch (Gold) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Early in Ulrich von Steinhausen's storied career he designed a watch more splendid than anyone could have imagined.
		He wanted to create a timepiece that mirrored the cockpit of the grand Zeppelin airships of the era.
		It was also a way of honoring one of his closest friends who had passed away in 1917, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, inventor of the "rigid hydrogen airship." He felt that the pilots of the "Floating Palaces" or "Grand Luxury Airships" of the era deserved a watch befitting their status.
	www.gifts-gadgets-toys.net /pages/453163081.html (844 words)

	Hellfire Corner - The Great War - The Zeppelin Museum - Friedrichshafen, Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The industrialist Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin (1838 - 1917) invented the concept here and the Zeppelin company is still based in the town.
		The Zeppelin Museum is the main attraction, and it was packed since the rain had forced all the tourists indoors.
		I noticed a small Zeppelin-shaped token that had been fashioned out of the frame of a Zeppelin that had crashed in Essex, and which was sold to raise money for the British war effort.
	www.fylde.demon.co.uk /charles33.htm (322 words)

	No 666 Steinbach Nutcracker Count Zeppelin
		Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838 — 1917) who was active in Fried richshafen on Lake Constance came from an old, noble family in Mecklenburg.
		I myself have seen the airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin which was built after the 1st World War several times on its flights in Germany.
		It was the beginning of the first regular transatlantic passenger airflight, continued by LZ 129 Hindenburg, which was destroyed by arson in Lakehurst/USA in 1 937.This meant the end of the Zeppelins.
	www.magicofnutcrackers.com /Nutcrackers/Pages/666.htm (380 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
		First World War.com - Who's Who - Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
		Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917) was born in Konstanz, Baden on 8 April 1838 and was the first large-scale builder of the rigid dirigibles which eventually became synonymous with his name.
		Zeppelin first conducted balloon trials whilst in the U.S. as a military observer during the 1860s.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/zeppelin.htm (367 words)

	FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		7 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : Zeppelin *\Zep`pelin"\** (ts[e^]p`p[~e]*l[=e]"; Angl.
		A dirigible balloon of the rigid type, consisting of a cylindrical trussed and covered frame supported by internal gas cells, and provided with means of propulsion and control.
		It was first successfully used by Ferdinand Count von Zeppelin.
	www.fanfiction.net /dictionary.php?word=zeppelin (63 words)

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