Dr Eckeners Dream Machine

Author : Douglas Botting
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780805064599
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Eckener's Dream Machine written by Douglas Botting and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It wasn't the airplane that first romanced the public's imagination at the dawn of the twentieth century, but the great airships known as dirigibles, or zeppelins. Championing this great leap into the technological future was a visionary German entrepreneur, Dr. Hugo Eckener. For Eckener, the development of the airship, especially coming in the aftermath of the First World War, represented an opportunity to shrink the world through safe and speedy international travel. Douglas Botting's engrossing story vividly recaptures the spirit of the times, when new technologies in communication, transportation, manufacturing, and other areas were revolutionizing society. The airship reached its apotheosis with the round-the-world flight of the Graf Zeppelin in 1929. They were a source of wonder wherever they flew, and Eckener was likened to Christopher Columbus, hailed around the world as the great explorer of his day.

Author : Douglas Botting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780006532255
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr Eckener's Dream Machine written by Douglas Botting and published by . This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the Graf Zeppelin's amazing round-the-world flight in 1929 - the first-ever passenger circumnavigation by air - the book tells the story of the Zeppelin airship: one of the most spectacular technological and operational marvels of its age. The year 2000 marked the hundredth anniversary of the maiden flight of the first experimental Zeppelin airship. A further 115 giant airships were built and flown by the Zeppelin company (based at Friedrichshafen on the shores of Lake Constance in Germany) - mostly for the purposes of war - but the most successful and best loved was the second to last of them, Dr Hugo Eckener's round-the-world airship, Graf Zeppelin, the dream machine. Based on the reports and recollections of those on board, including Lady Grace Drummond Hay, an attractive young aristocratic English widow, and the man at the heart of the story, the airship's creator and commander Hugo Eckener, the book is both a romantic travel adventure and the story of a great scientific achievement.

Author : Michael McMenamin
Publisher : Enigma Books
ISBN 13 : 1936274094
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Author : Jon Palfreman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Author : Theodor H. Nelson
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Total Pages : 126 pages
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Author : J. Duggan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403920095
Total Pages : 275 pages
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Download or read book Airships in International Affairs 1890 - 1940 written by J. Duggan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-09-25 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the unique psychological appeal of the airship worldwide and shows how this appeal was exploited for ulterior political purposes. They were used by Count Zeppelin to advance German militarism, American Admiral Moffett to fight US Army aviation ambitions, British Lord Thomson to foster Socialism and strengthen Empire ties, Mussolini to promote Italian Fascism, Stalin to foster world Communism, and Hitler to promote Nazi ideology. As airships roamed worldwide, so they carried these political influences with them.

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Total Pages : 60 pages
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Author : Douglas Botting
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr Eckener's Dream Machine written by Douglas Botting and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2000 marks the 100th anniversary of the maiden flight of the first experimental Zeppelin airship. A further 115 giant airships were built and flown by the Zeppelin company (based at Friedrichshafen on the shores of Lake Constance in Germany) - mostly for the purposes of war - but the most successful and best loved was the second to last of them, Dr Hugo Eckener's round-the-world airship, Graf Zeppelin, the dream machine.

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ISBN 13 : 9781716512995
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