Transport & space · 1900

Rigid airship

Count Zeppelin's engine-driven rigid airship makes lighter-than-air flight steerable.

LZ 1 first flew over Lake Constance in July 1900. Zeppelins carried paying passengers from 1910, and the Graf Zeppelin flew around the world in 1929. The Hindenburg fire in 1937 ended the airship era in favor of airplanes.

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What it built on 3

Aluminum (Hall-Heroult) 1886
Internal combustion engine 1876
Hot air balloon 1783

Watch

Hindenburg Disaster - Real Footage (1937) | British PathéBritish Pathé · YouTube

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Transatlantic crossing time Latest: 3.5 hours (1976) Source: Wikipedia: Transatlantic crossing, duration list; Geography of Transport Systems: liner transatlantic crossing times