Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2006).
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Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was a German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships. His name became synonymous with airships and dominated long-distance flight until the 1930s. He founded the company Luftschiffbau Zeppelin.
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Born 8 July 1838 · Died 8 March 1917 · Q75780
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2006· 1 entry
1975· 1 entry
Zeppelin was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame
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1917· 1 entry
Died 1917-03-08.
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1909· 1 entry
Married Graf Alexander von Brandenstein-Zeppelin (1881–1949)
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1908· 1 entry
Won Grashof Commemorative Medal (1908).
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1907· 1 entry
Attained a speed of 36 miles per hour (58 km/h)
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1906· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1906).
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1895· 1 entry
Count Everhard von Zeppelin, Second Lieutenant in the German Lancers, married November 1895, Mary "Mamie" McGarvey, daughter of Canadian magnate William Henry McGarvey, owner of the oil wells of Galicia and his wife, Helena J.
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1891· 2 entries
“s secretary, announcing he was to start building, and shortly after requested a review from the Prussian Army”
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At age 52, Zeppelin devoted his full attention to airships
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1890· 1 entry
Gave up the post to return to army service and was given command of a Prussian cavalry brigade
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1888· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog (1888).
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1887· 1 entry
The success of Charles Renard and Arthur Krebs' 1884 airship La France prompted him to send a letter to the King of Württemberg about the military necessity for dirigibles and the lack of German development in this field
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1879· 1 entry
They had a daughter, Helene (Hella) von Zeppelin (1879–1967) who in 1909 married Graf Alexander von Brandenstein-Zeppelin (1881–1949).
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1865· 1 entry
Zeppelin was appointed adjutant of the King of Württemberg and as general staff officer participated in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866
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1863· 1 entry
Zeppelin took leave to act as an observer for the Union's Army of the Potomac in the American Civil War in Virginia
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1859· 1 entry
When he was called up to the Ingenieurkorps (Würtemberg engineering corps) at Ulm
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1853· 1 entry
Count Zeppelin left to attend the polytechnic at Stuttgart, and in 1855 he became a cadet of the military school at Ludwigsburg and then started his career as an army officer in the army of Württemberg
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1838· 1 entry
Born 1838-07-08.
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1807· 1 entry
Ferdinand was the son of Württemberg Minister and Hofmarschall Friedrich Jerôme Wilhelm Karl Graf von Zeppelin (1807–1886) and his wife Amélie Françoise Pauline (born Macaire d'Hogguer) (1816–1852).
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