Zeppelin - The Story of a Great Achievement

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Zeppelin, by Harry VisseringThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: ZeppelinThe Story of a Great AchievementAuthor: Harry VisseringRelease Date: May 28, 2010 [EBook #32570]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ZEPPELIN ***Produced by Irma Spehar and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file wasproduced from images generously made available by TheInternet Archive/American Libraries.)All the images are linked to the better-quality ones. To see them, please click on the image.Count ZeppelinCOUNT ZEPPELIN1838-1917]ZeppelinThe Story of a Great AchievementFor the great vision and unfaltering devotion to an idea that gave the rigid airship to the world, thiscompilation is my humble tribute to the memory of Count Zeppelin.Harry VisseringChicago, August,1922 Copyright 1922 byHarry VisseringAll rights reserved including that oftranslation into foreign languages.“The forces of nature cannot be eliminated but theymay be balanced one against the other.”Count Zeppelin,Friedrichshafen, May 1914.HE savage can fasten only a dozen pounds on his back and swim the river. When he makes an axe, fells a tree, and builds araft, he can carry many times a dozen pounds. As ...