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Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (German: Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin; [1] 8 July 1838 – 8 March 1917) was a German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships. His name became synonymous with airships and dominated long-distance flight until the 1930s. He founded the company Luftschiffbau Zeppelin.
Schwarz died only months before the airship was flown. Some sources [3] have claimed that Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin purchased Schwarz's airship patent from his widow, a claim which has been disputed. [4] He was the father of the opera and operetta soprano Vera Schwarz (1888–1964).
A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin (German pronunciation: [ˈt͡sɛpəliːn] ⓘ) who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century. Zeppelin's notions were first formulated in 1874 [1] and developed in detail in 1893. [2]
1909 – Count Ferdinand Adolf August von Zeppelin make the first long distance flight with the Zeppelin LZ5. 1909 – Linde–Frank–Caro process. 1910 – The first Zeppelin passenger flight with the Zeppelin LZ7. 1910 – Fritz Haber patents the Haber process.
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin realised that a rigid outer frame would allow a much bigger airship. ... He was the first to patent an aileron control system in 1868.
22 June – The first commercial airship flight takes place, as the Zeppelin Deutschland flies from Friederichshafen to Düsseldorf, Germany, with 20 paying passengers – 10 men and 10 women – on board. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin is at Deutschland ' s helm. [17]
1893: Zeppelin, the first rigid airship, [580] by Ferdinand von Zeppelin [581] 1894: Lilienthal Normalsegelapparat, the first aeroplane to be serially produced, by Otto Lilienthal [582] [583] 1895: Internal combustion engine bus by Daimler [584] 1896: First truck (Daimler Motor-Lastwagen) by Gottlieb Daimler [585] 1897: Flat engine by Karl Benz ...
Construction of USS Shenandoah, 1923, showing the framework of a rigid airship. A rigid airship is a type of airship (or dirigible) in which the envelope is supported by an internal framework rather than by being kept in shape by the pressure of the lifting gas within the envelope, as in blimps (also called pressure airships) and semi-rigid airships.