
	Where results make sense

Topic: Ferdinand von Zeppelin

Related Topics

Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin

Zeppelin

Graf Zeppelin

Airship

Hugo Eckener

List of Zeppelins

Blimp

Hindenburg disaster

Hindenburg

Aviation history

List of airships of the United States Navy

Ernst Heinkel

Werner von Siemens

Wernher von Braun

Henry Miller Shreve

	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.
		He therefore did not witness either the provisional shutdown of the Zeppelin project due to the Treaty of Versailles or the second resurgence of the zeppelins under his successor Hugo Eckener.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferdinand_von_Zeppelin (474 words)

	Zeppelin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Zeppelin is a type of dirigible, more specifically a type of rigid airship pioneered by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century and based in part on an earlier design by David Schwarz.
		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 (6309 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: 2007-10-22)
		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)

	Zeppelin - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship (or dirigible) pioneered by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century based on an earlier design by David Schwarz.
		Construction of the first Zeppelin airship began in 1899 in a floating assembly hall on Lake Constance in the Bay of Manzell, Friedrichshafen.
		Zeppelins are a prop of a modern sub-genre of science fiction that is inspired by the visions of the 1930s.Examples are The Rocketeer, Crimson Skies and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/LZ1 (5964 words)

	123Student
		Zeppelin served in the Franco-German War of 1870-1871; he retired in 1891 with the rank of brigadier general.
		One of whom was Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin.
		"Count von Zeppelin, a stout 62-year-old ex-cavalry commander with a white walrus mustache, twinkling eyes and a white yachting cap perched on his round head" is how he was described on July 2, 1900, the date of his maiden voyage.
	www.123student.com /biographies/264.shtml (1912 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Count von Zeppelin joined the Army at 16 and earned his commission by the time he was 20.
		During Zeppelin's military career, he fought in the Seven-Weeks War (1866) and the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), serving in the armies of Württemburg, Prussia and Imperial Germany.
		In 1890, Zeppelin retired from military service as a brigadier of cavalry, but the 52 year old count was not ready to retire completely.
	www.gwpda.org /bio/xyz/zeppelin.html (446 words)

	First World War.com - The War in the Air - Bombers: Germany, Zeppelins
		Throughout the remainder of 1915 the Zeppelins raided London frequently, and with impunity.
		Thus was conceived the third generation of Zeppelins, the "Height Climbers", airships capable of reaching an altitude of 20,000 feet.
		Of the 115 Zeppelins employed by the Germans, 53 were destroyed and a further 24 were too damaged to be operational.
	www.firstworldwar.com /airwar/bombers_zeppelins.htm (1890 words)

	zeppelin - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Zeppelin, rigid airship that has cells filled with lighter-than-air gas to provide lift, also called a dirigible.
		Zeppelin, Ferdinand, Graf von (1838-1917), German military officer, who developed the rigid dirigible, a lighter-than-air vehicle that became known...
		Led Zeppelin, popular British rock band, which pioneered the development of heavy-metal rock music.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /zeppelin.html (101 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 (852 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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)

	Ferdinand von Zeppelin
		Zeppelin had reached the rank of brigadier general when he retired from the German Army in 1891.
		Ferdinand Zeppelin continued to improve his airship and in March 1909 the German Army purchased the Zeppelin Z1.
		A total of 115 Zeppelins were used by the German military, of which, 77 were either destroyed or so damaged they could not be used again.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /AVzeppelin.htm (485 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)

	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)

	Transporteon.com -- Zeppelin
		However, it is important to note that the small structure on the bottom of the large Zeppelins is not the entire habitable space of the craft; they often had space internally - this was done for aerodynamic reasons.
		By 1914, state-of-the-art Zeppelins had lengths of 150-160 m and volumes of 22,000-25,000 m3, enabling them to carry loads of around 9 tonnes.
		In late World War I the Zeppelin Company, having spawned several dependencies around Germany with shipyards closer to the fronts than Friedrichshafen, delivered airships of around 200 m in length (some even more) and with volumes of 56,000-69,000 m3.
	www.transporteon.com /zeppelin.html (4986 words)

	Zeppelin Biographie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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
		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)

	BookRags: Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin 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.
		He already knew how the dirigible should be constructed: a rigid metal structure of vertical rings held in place by long rows of girders; separate gas cells between the rings; a fabric skin covering the metal structure.
		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.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/count-ferdinand-von-zeppelin-woi (727 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia â“ Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
		ZEPPELIN, FERDINAND, GRAF VON [Zeppelin, Ferdinand, Graf von], 1838-1917, German army officer and airship inventor and builder.
		He invented the first rigid airship in 1900, and in 1906 built one that had a speed of 30 mi (48 km) per hr.
		In 1908 he established at Friederichshafen the Zeppelin Foundation for the development of aerial navigation and the manufacture of airships.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:Zeppelin (120 words)

	Zeppelin! LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin - Frankfurt am Main
		Geburtstag von Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin auf den Namen GRAF ZEPPELIN getauft; obwohl noch funktionsfähig, 1940 auf Befehl Görings abgewrackt.
		Dieses Luftschiff erreichte ein große Zahl von Rekorden, unter anderem den längsten Non-Stop-Flug von Deutschland nach Lakehurst, New Jersey, eine 6200 Meilen-Reise in 111 Stunden und 44 Minuten.
		Graf Zeppelin in its hanger at Friedrichshafen on Lake Konstanz
	www.altfrankfurt.com /Spezial/Zeppelin/GrafZeppelin (308 words)

	ZEPPELIN > Historical Note
		Zeppelins logged in over a million miles of passenger travel without loss of life.
		The last of the Zeppelins, LZ130 Graf Zeppelin II, was subsequently restricted to military use and, along with the globe-trotting LZ127 Graf Zeppelin, was dismantled in 1940.
		In 1994, the Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GMBH in Friedrichshafen announced plans to test new technology in the construction and manuvering of passenger / cargo-carrying dirigibles.
	spot.colorado.edu /~dziadeck/zf/historical.htm (312 words)

	CNN.com - Zeppelin returns to the skies - August 16, 2001
		Footage of the Hindenburg Zeppelin catching fire as it approached the landing strip at Lakehurst, New Jersey, in 1937, killing 35 of the 96 on board, has not dimmed the enthusiasm for the mode of transport.
		Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin launched the first airship over Lake Constance in 1900, but the Zeppelin era ended in 1937 with the Hindenburg fire.
		The new 75-metre-long (246-foot-long) Zeppelin NT model is filled with nonflammable helium instead of the dangerous hydrogen that doomed the first generation of airships.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/08/15/germany.zeppelin (277 words)

	Zeppelin Ferdinand Graf von - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Zeppelin Ferdinand Graf von - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		In 1890 Daimler and Maybach launched the Daimler Motor Company, and their cars were soon a commercial success because of their reliability.
		This obituary of Ferdinand, Graf von Zeppelin, appeared in The Times on March 9, 1917.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Zeppelin_Ferdinand_Graf_von.html (115 words)

	Zeppelin-Luftschiffe
		Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin was interested in this problematic, too, and had an idea of building a rigid airship.
		Hugo Eckener, who continued the work of Count Zeppelin after his death in 1917, was going to do nearly everything to save the LZ from beeing destroyed.
		with LZ 127 "Graf Zeppelin (I)" in March/April 1940 by the command of Göring.
	www.zeppelinfan.de /html-seiten/englisch/luftschiff_zeppelin.htm (1496 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)

	Death of a Zeppelin, 1916
		Initially, defenders were powerless as the Zeppelins flew at altitudes too high for defending aircraft or artillery to reach.
		Although the actual material damage inflicted by the Zeppelins was minimal, their psychological impact on the British population was significant.
		Then the searchlights were turned off and the Zeppelin drifted perpendicularly in the darkened sky, a gigantic pyramid of flames, red and orange, like a ruined star falling slowly to earth.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /zeppelin.htm (1092 words)

	Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A total of 119 zeppelins were built between 1900 and 1938.
		The LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin’ undertook an around-the-world flight in October 1929.
		The Graf Zeppelin’ was the most successful of the Zeppelin airships, with a total of 590 flights covering a distance of about 1.7 million miles.
	www.zeppelin-nt.com /pages/E/luftsch_u_gesch_inh.htm (149 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)