Zeppelin

size: 24x16in Photographic Print: Airship Graf Zeppelin, as Seen from Below, from 'Zeppelin-Weltfahrten' :

The history and technology of airships, blimps, and zeppelins.

The imaginary allure of traveling by airship comes to life for fans of steampunk through books like Leviathan and Boneshaker. Oh, the thrill of floating gracefully, quietly, through the clouds with the earth far below! The idea of traveling – or at least transporting goods – via airship may not be so far-fetched, according to […]

Call No.: 12_00084 Corp. Name: Zeppelin Subject: Zeppelin Notes: ""LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin"" Description: 8 x 10 Color Illustration

The image above shows the dirigible Graf Zeppelin over San Francisco Bay while on its 1929 around-the-world flight. Appropriately, the illustrator was Stan Galli (1912-2009), who was born in San Francisco and spent most of his long career there rather than in New York or Chicago where most American illustrators plied their trade in his day. Some biographical information on Galli can be found here. Reminiscences by his son are here, and extracts from an interview of Galli are here. Galli was…

Diagrams of British and German airships drawn to scale. First World War.

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