The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 158
stance the air-ship may travel at a FLYING-MACHINES AND AIR SHIPS 143 rate of twenty miles an hour or more, evenagainst the wind. The most successful dirigible balloon was prob-ably the Zeppelin, so called from its inventor. purposes. The one designed in England is calledNulli Secundus, and after… … COUNT ZEPPELIN S EARLIER AIR-SHIP, MORE THAN 400 KEET LONG.Photographed in flight by E. Frankl, Berlin. termed such, yet constructed, while it had arecord for attaining the greatest speed and lift-ing the heaviest load yet borne aloft. Count Zep-pelin is a German officer who has spent severalyears…
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