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Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin (July 8, 1838 - March 8, 1917) was a German general and later aircraft manufacturer. He saw active service in the Austrian war of 1866 and in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. From the 1880s onward, he was preoccupied with the idea of guidable balloons. After his resignation from the army in 1891, he devoted his full attention to airships. His idea was for a rigid alumiium framework covered in a fabric envelope; separate multiple internal gas cells, each free to expand and contract thus obviating the need for ballonets; modular frame allowing addition of sections and gas cells; controls, engines and gondola rigidly attached. In 1906, he made two successful flights at a speed of 30 mph and in 1907 attained a speed of 36 mph. Within a few short years the zeppelin revolution began creating the age of air transportation. He died in 1917 at the age of 78. Photographed by Bain News Service, undated.
