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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Zeppelin, by Harry Vissering This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Zeppelin The Story of a Great Achievement Author: Harry Vissering Release Date: May 28, 2010 [EBook #32570] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ZEPPELIN *** Produced by Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration: COUNT ZEPPELIN 1838-1917] Zeppelin The Story of a Great Achievement For the great vision and unfaltering devotion to an idea that gave the rigid airship to the world, this compilation is my humble tribute to the memory of Count Zeppelin. [Signature: Harry Vissering] Chicago, August, 1922 Copyright 1922 by Harry Vissering All rights reserved including that of translation into foreign languages. [Illustration: "_The forces of nature cannot be eliminated but they may be balanced one against the other._" _Count Zeppelin, Friedrichshafen, May 1914._] "The savage can fasten only a dozen pounds on his back and swim the river. When he makes an axe, fells a tree, and builds a raft, he can carry many times a dozen pounds. As soon as he learns to rip logs into boards and build a boat, he multiplies his power a hundredfold; and when to this he adds modern sciences he can produce the monster steel leviathans that defy wind, storm and distance, and bear to the uttermost parts of the earth burdens a millionfold greater than the savage could carry 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."
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