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a 240-meter cigar full of explosive gas that somehow seemed like a great idea.
means A rigid airship with an internal metal framework keeping its shape, kept aloft by lighter-than-air gas and used in the early 20th century for travel, military reconnaissance, and bombing.
from Named for Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, the German nobleman and former cavalry officer who championed and built these enormous rigid airships around the turn of the 20th century. His name — itself of likely Italian origin, brought into a German aristocratic line — became the generic word for the craft, much as 'biro' or 'hoover' borrowed a maker's name. The first Zeppelin flew in 1900; the word soon floated free of the man and attached itself to the whole class of vast, lumbering, hydrogen-filled giants.
- hindenburg
- Burned in 37 seconds on live radio in 1937
- lift gas
- Used flammable hydrogen because America hoarded the helium
- transatlantic luxury
- Featured a smoking room aboard a hydrogen bomb
- namesake
- Named for Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, retired cavalry general
- war role
- Bombed London from the clouds in WWI
led zeppelin — british rock band formed 1968, sold over 300 million records worldwide
hindenburg — german passenger airship that caught fire in 1937 at lakehurst, new jersey
graf zeppelin — german luxury airship that completed world tour in 1929