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Definition of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
1. Noun. German inventor who designed and built the first rigid motorized dirigible (1838-1917).
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Literary usage of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"Thirty years afterward electric motors were applied with better results, but
nothing really practicable was produced until Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"From.1897 onwards Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, of the German army, was engaged
in constructing an immense balloon, truly an airship, of most careful and ..."
3. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1918)
"Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin dies. 10.—British forces advance on a front of more
than three miles in the Ancre region, capturing the village of Irles, ..."
4. Textbook of Naval Aeronautics by Henry Woodhouse (1917)
"During the day it is too work of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin since dangerous
for Zeppelins to venture on a raid. 1900, and the investment of probably over ..."
5. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin is said to have procured the basic idea for his
invention from an Austrian engineer named Schwarz, ..."
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