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O J Simpson Columbine High School
1,644 wordsThesis: The Hindenburg has contributed to the history of aircraft as well as A. attention getter and relate it to Hindenburg A. Count von Zeppelins first rigid airships III. Paul von Hindenburg: The man that the famous airship was named after. A. Hindenburg, king of rigid airships and the last of them. B. aircraft has changed because of it C. investigations have changed because of it. the hindenburg's history and investigation A 747, O. J. Simpson, the Goodyear blimp and the shooting at Columbin...
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World War Ii 60 Years
1,154 wordsWas the "Hindenburg disaster" a result of sabotage committed by the opponents of the Nazi organization? Did a bolt of lightning strike the zeppelin? Or was one of the most devastating accidents in aviation history nothing but a cunningly planned insurance fraud? Over 60 years ago, airships were the "queens of the skies. " In the early 1900 s, a stubborn, yet brilliant German count, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, took keen interest in balloon flights and was devoted to the design and construction ...
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Hydrogen And Oxygen Combustion Engines
1,015 wordsHard to believe that the simplest atom in the universe is used in the making of the most destructive weapon known to man isnt it? Well so is the fact that it will soon (we hope) become the replacement for petroleum-based fuels, and just about every other form of fuel too. One electron orbiting one proton is all that hydrogen is, and it is mankind's future. It is easy to manufacture, (although the government says otherwise, ) safe and easy to store, and has only one by-product water. The way that...
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Ferdinand Von Zeppelin Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin War
450 wordsZEPPELINS Justin Kieslich U. S. History II Friday, December 8 th Zeppelins First invented in Manzell, a small town in Southern Germany by Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin (The Giant Airships, 1). The Zeppelin was made of duralumin internal frames. The first of the great airships to fly was the LZ 1 which was flown from its floating hanger on Lake Constance on July 2, 1900 (historical note, 1) When the British went to war with Germany on August 4, 1914, they fully anticipated that the skies over Engl...
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Military Career Km H
2,002 wordsFerdinand Graf von Zeppelin Probably hardly a shape of aviation history is part of as many legends as Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin. He was born on July 8, 1838 in Konstanz at the Bodensee. He was educated at the Ludwigsburg Military Academy and the University of T bingen. He entered the Prussian army in 1858 and went to the United States in 1863 to work as a military observer for the Union army and observed the Civil War. Zeppelin served in the Franco-German War of 1870 - 1871; he retired in 1891...
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Years Ago One Hundred
1,319 wordsCount Ferdinand Von Zeppelin and his crew operated their first airship nearly one hundred years ago. Airships are big controllable balloons, also known as dirigibles. Therefore three classes of airships, rigid, nonrigid and semirigid. Rigid airships (zeppelins) use framework in the interior to keep their shape. Semirigid airships are a combination of framework and gas pressure to maintain their shape. Nonrigid airships (blimps) rely solely on air pressure to keep their form. They are all propell...
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Nuclear Fusion Atomic Mass
683 wordsby I Helium Helium by I aint telling you! ! ! Pierre Janssen discovered helium in the sun in 1868. Janssen originally thought it was sodium, but Joseph Norman Lockyer noticed that it didnt correspond to the D 1 and D 2 lines of sodium. He named it the D 3 line. Lockyer said that the element D 3 was unknown on Earth. He and Edward Franklin concluded on the name Helios after the Greek god of the sun. Helium is found everywhere in space. All natural gases have at least a little bit helium in them. ...
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One Hundred Years Wright Brothers
2,065 wordsMans quest for flight Throught history, mankind has tried to imitate the flight of birds. Many memorable efforts to achieve flight have been recorded. However, most early attempts ended in failure. The following illustrates the various steps man has taken in his quest for flight, starting with Greek mythology and ending with the Wright Brothers famous first flight. According to Greek mythology, around 1200 B. C. , Daedalus was the first to master the art of flying. The legend describes how Daeda...
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Board Survived Hindenburg Airship
755 wordsThe Inferno The arrival of the Hindenburg, thirteen hours behind schedule, at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on the evening of May 6, 1937, promised to be routine. The ship had an unblemished safety record on eighteen previous Atlantic crossings. In fact, no passenger had ever lost his life on any commercial airship. Still, because this was the beginning of the most ambitious season yet for airship voyages, reporters, photographers and news reel cameramen had their eyes and lenses focused on the great d...
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