Crossword clues for zeppelin
zeppelin
- Transatlantic transport of the 1930s
- The Hindenburg, for one
- Rigid airship
- Old flight option
- Metal godfathers, informally
- Led ___ ("Stairway to Heaven" rockers)
- Invention of 1900
- Goodyear partner, 1922-40
- Flight debut of 1900
- Early transatlantic flier
- Dirigible kin
- Dirigible balloon
- Bygone mode of transportation
- "Stairway to Heaven" band, Led ___
- Early 20th-century mode of transportation
- Staple of classic rock, informally
- Former airship
- German inventor who designed and built the first rigid motorized dirigible (1838-1917)
- A large rigid dirigible designed to carry passengers or bombs
- Rock's Led ___
- Airship
- German inventor, designer of the first rigid motorised airship, d. 1917
- German airship
- Led follower to create flyer
- Large inflatable nipple burst by the German comic
- Large German dirigible
- Dual power priest involved in version of Buddhism that was full of gas
- Eponymous German aeronaut
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zeppelin \Zep`pe*lin"\ (ts[e^]p`p[~e]*l[=e]"; Angl. z[e^]p"p[-e]*l[i^]n), n. A dirigible balloon of the rigid type, consisting of a cylindrical trussed and covered frame supported by internal gas cells, and provided with means of propulsion and control. It was first successfully used by Ferdinand Count von Zeppelin.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1900, from German Zeppelin, short for Zeppelinschiff "Zeppelin ship," after Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), German general who perfected its design. Compare blimp. Related: Zeppelinous.
Wiktionary
n. A type of large German dirigible airship of the early 20th century designed to carry passengers or bombs.
Wikipedia
A Zeppelin was a type of rigid airship named after the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century. Zeppelin's ideas were first formulated in 1874 and developed in detail in 1893. They were patented in Germany in 1895 and in the United States in 1899. After the outstanding success of the Zeppelin design, the word zeppelin came to be commonly used to refer to all rigid airships. Zeppelins were first flown commercially in 1910 by Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-AG (DELAG), the world's first airline in revenue service. By mid-1914, DELAG had carried over 10,000 fare-paying passengers on over 1,500 flights. During World War I the German military made extensive use of Zeppelins as bombers and scouts, killing over 500 people in bombing raids in Britain.
The defeat of Germany in 1918 temporarily slowed down the airship business. Although DELAG established a scheduled daily service between Berlin, Munich, and Friedrichshafen in 1919, the airships built for this service eventually had to be surrendered under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which also prohibited Germany from building large airships. An exception was made allowing the construction of one airship for the US Navy, which saved the company from extinction. In 1926 the restrictions on airship construction were lifted and with the aid of donations from the public work was started on the construction of LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin. This revived the company's fortunes, and during the 1930s the airships Graf Zeppelin and the larger LZ 129 Hindenburg operated regular transatlantic flights from Germany to North America and Brazil. The Art Deco spire of the Empire State Building was originally designed to serve as a mooring mast for Zeppelins and other airships, although it was found that high winds made this impossible and the plan was abandoned. The Hindenburg disaster in 1937, along with political and economic issues, hastened the demise of the Zeppelins.
Zeppelin is a 1971 British World War I action-drama directed by Étienne Périer. The film stars Michael York, Elke Sommer and Anton Diffring. Zeppelin depicts a fictitious German attempt to raid on Great Britain in a giant Zeppelin to steal the Magna Carta from its hiding place in one of Scotland's castles.
Zeppelin is a German surname that usually refers to:
- Zeppelin, a rigid airship
It can also refer to:
The surname Zeppelin first appeared in a German document dated September 1286, indicating an origin in the town of Zepelin, which is now a municipality in the district of Rostock, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
In the Middle Ages, to be called von Zeppelin could mean simply "from Zeppelin". However, in later centuries the word "von" was added only as a nobiliary particle, indicating an ancestor who had been ennobled.
The Zeppelin (iPod Speaker System) is a group of speaker systems sold, designed, and manufactured by the English audio company Bowers & Wilkins for use with the iPod. . The original speaker, the Zeppelin, was on sale from 2006-2011.'' WhatHiFi'' considered that it "set the benchmark for premium iPod speaker docks".
The device has now been updated, and renamed the Zeppelin Air. It received substantial reviews by PC magazine, which rated it "excellent", and from What HiFi. The firm also uses the Zeppelin brand to market the Zeppelin Mini, which was reviewed by PCmag, and What HiFi, in connection with their Zeppelin Air reviews. What HiFi said that "despite its smaller stature, there was no dip in sound quality."
Zeppelin is a research station in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway. It is operated by the Norwegian Polar Institute.
Usage examples of "zeppelin".
The Zeppelin captains tried to aim their bombs at factories, bridges and railways but often found it difficult to do so accurately and many bombs hit private houses.
Considering that the total number of Germans captured in the Cameroons is only equal to the number of civilians murdered or wounded in British towns by Zeppelin bombs, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of pounds to the German Government, one begins to wonder whether Norden and his countrymen possess any sense of proportion.
We have already had a taste of this sort of reasoning when the royalties fled from Karlsruhe and when the murderers upon the sinking Zeppelin received the reward due to men who boast that they will not keep faith.
First of all Montgolfier, then balloonists who used gas and not hot air, then, at last, your Count Zeppelin.
With Kevin, they were getting heavily into Led Zeppelin, Ted Nugent, and Bob Seger, and Bill started saving up for a Fender Stratocaster and an amp.
The vast, extended silver cigar was built externally on the ancient zeppelin pattern but with an industrial stasis generator and a pair of big mass repulsers where the gasbags had been back in the olden days.
We may pass over the crimes committed from a distance, so to speak, on unfortified towns, with fieldpieces, long-range guns, aeroplanes, and Zeppelins, merely noting that the Germans were the first to fire shells into the centre of towns indiscriminately.
James Cairns stood, huddled in a fur cloak, on the castle's ancient battlement and gazed at the ship as it slid across the sky from the east, a glowing zeppelin at least three hundred meters long.
And they both knew that whoever got there first would have the advantage, but there wasn't much in it: Lord Asriel's gyropters were faster than the zeppelins of the Consistorial Court, but they had farther to fly, and they were limited by the speed of their own zeppelin tanker.
Oh heckfire, ma'am, it was one'a them crop circle things, like on the cover'a that Led Zeppelin record.
Sailing through the air like a small Zeppelin, it scooped up Harum Scarum, then the ten Scares behind him, then the ten Scares behind them, snapping and swallowing, snapping and swallowing till not a Scare nor a Fraid Cat remained in the courtyard.
The Zeppelins and blimps of a later day owed much to the daring and gadgeteering of this tiny aeronaut.
But a German zeppelin had put paid to that and crippled my mother into the bargain.
The moment she was launched into the ladies' room he rushed back up, walked over to Zeppelin Tung who was near them.
I had flown down in the Count Von Zeppelin, at Papeete I would fly home in the Admiral Moffett, so I was forever junior and should keep quiet while my betters pontificated'.