Project Gutenberg 2010-05-28 Public domain in the USA. 302 Vissering, Harry 23016177 Zeppelin: The Story of a Great Achievement Produced by Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Zeppelin: The Story of a Great Achievement" by Harry Vissering is a historical account likely written in the early 20th century. The book chronicles the life and innovations of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a key figure in the development of rigid airships and the aviation industry. It highlights Zeppelin’s vision for aerial transportation, covering his numerous designs and the successful flights of his airships that influenced both military and commercial aviation. The opening of the text introduces Count Zeppelin as a military officer who turned his attention towards creating airships. It recounts his early life and military career, followed by his fascination with flight sparked during the American Civil War and later experiences in Europe. The text further delineates his relentless pursuit of funding and support for his airship projects, culminating in the successful first flight of his rigid airship, LZ-1, in 1900. This revolutionized transportation, placing Zeppelin at the forefront of aerial innovation, which the book promises to explore in greater detail. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Aeronautics, Military Airships Zeppelin, Ferdinand, Graf von, 1838-1917 Aeronautics, Commercial TL Text Browsing: Engineering & Construction Browsing: Science - General 209978 2024-09-14T03:45:19.286974 2023-09-14T08:45:04.176934 text/html text/html 201906 2010-05-28T11:55:44 text/html; charset=utf-8 9147816 2010-05-28T12:01:04 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 9505394 2024-09-14T03:45:35.865910 application/epub+zip 9451282 2024-09-14T03:45:22.512953 application/epub+zip 128267 2024-09-14T03:45:20.641979 application/epub+zip 9546940 2024-09-14T03:45:45.829366 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 9482050 2024-09-14T03:45:30.918920 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 208953 2022-09-15T05:18:04.284682 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 143828 2024-09-14T03:45:17.699027 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 144563 2010-05-28T11:55:42 text/plain; charset=utf-8 51767 2010-05-28T12:01:04 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 143615 2010-05-28T11:56:08 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 51599 2010-05-28T12:01:04 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 143636 2010-05-28T12:00:50 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 51586 2010-05-28T12:01:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21659 2024-09-14T03:45:46.115374 application/rdf+xml 17300 2024-09-14T03:45:21.029002 image/jpeg 3863 2024-09-14T03:45:20.838967 image/jpeg 9215208 2024-09-14T03:45:19.867985 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog