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Title: Zeppelin
The Story of a Great Achievement

Author: Harry Vissering

Release Date: May 28, 2010 [EBook #32570]

Language: English

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[Illustration: COUNT ZEPPELIN

1838-1917]

Zeppelin

The Story of a Great Achievement

For the great vision and unfaltering devotion to an idea that gave the
rigid airship to the world, this compilation is my humble tribute to the
memory of Count Zeppelin.

[Signature: Harry Vissering]

Chicago, August, 1922

Copyright 1922
by Harry Vissering

All rights reserved including that
of translation into foreign languages.

[Illustration:

"_The forces of nature cannot be eliminated but they may be
balanced one against the other._"

_Count Zeppelin, Friedrichshafen, May 1914._]

"The savage can fasten only a dozen pounds on his back and swim the
river. When he makes an axe, fells a tree, and builds a raft, he can
carry many times a dozen pounds. As soon as he learns to rip logs into
boards and build a boat, he multiplies his power a hundredfold; and when
to this he adds modern sciences he can produce the monster steel
leviathans that defy wind, storm and distance, and bear to the uttermost
parts of the earth burdens a millionfold greater than the savage could
carry across the narrow river."

--_Horace Mann_

FOREWORD

"Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone
excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done
most for civilization."