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COUNT ZEPPELIN
1838-1917]
Zeppelin
The Story of a Great Achievement
For the great vision and unfaltering devotion to an idea that gavethe rigid airship to the world, this compilation is my humble tributeto the memory of Count Zeppelin.
Chicago, August, 1922
Copyright 1922 by
Harry Vissering
All rights reserved including that of
translation into foreign languages.
“The forces of nature cannot be eliminated but they may be balanced oneagainst the other.”
Count Zeppelin,
Friedrichshafen, May 1914.
The savage can fasten only a dozen pounds on hisback and swim the river. When he makes an axe,fells a tree, and builds a raft, he can carry manytimes a dozen pounds. As soon as he learns to rip logsinto boards and build a boat, he multiplies his power ahundredfold; and when to this he adds modern sciences hecan produce the monster steel leviathans that defy wind,storm and distance, and bear to the uttermost parts of theearth burdens a millionfold greater than the savage couldcarry across the narrow river.”
—Horace Mann
FOREWORD
“Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted,those inventions which abridge distance have done most for civilization.”
—Macaulay.
The economic value of the fast transportation of passengers, mailand express matter has been well proven. The existing high speedrailway trains and ocean liners are the result of the ever increasingdemand for rapid communication both on land and water.
Saving in time is the great essential. The maximum surfacespeed has apparently been attained. The railways and steamships oftoday, while indeed fast, have reached their economical limit of speedand it is not to be expected that they will be able, because of the enormousadditional cost of operation involved, to attain much greaterspeeds.
The large Zeppelin Airship supplies the demand for a much faster,more luxurious, more comfortable and more safe long distance transportation.It is not restricted by the geographical limitations of therailway and the steamship. A Zeppelin can go anywhere, in fact thecruising radius of a Zeppelin is only limited by the size of the ship andthe amount of fuel it can carry.
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