This week was the 160th anniversary of the birth of Count Ferdinand von
Zeppelin, the man who almost single-handedly started a new era in air travel.
His first airship took off in July 1900 at Lake Constance, on the Swiss-German
border. Check out his somewhat ungainly early design at Matthew Barnes’s
Zeppelin Library, a comprehensive historical site, at
http://top.monad.net/~wonko/Zep_HP.html
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