Rigid airship (Zeppelin)
Dirigible rígido
- Date
- 1900 · confidence high
- Place
- Friedrichshafen, Lake Constance, Germany
- Credited to
- Ferdinand von Zeppelin; David Schwarz (aluminium airship, Berlin, 1897)
- People
- 👤 David Schwarz1850–1897👤 Ferdinand von Zeppelin1838–1917
- Field
- Movement
What it is
Airship with an aluminium structure and hydrogen cells, the LZ 1, capable of long-duration directed flight. It was the first air transport for passengers (DELAG, 1910).
What it led to
- First aerial bombing raids on cities (London, 1915)
- Luxury transatlantic air travel (Graf Zeppelin, Hindenburg)
- Abandonment after Lakehurst (1937) in favour of the aeroplane
Built on
Made possible
- Strategic bombing