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Airshipmen, businessmen, and politics, 1890-1940 / Henry Cord Meyer.

Title: Airshipmen, businessmen, and politics, 1890-1940 / Henry Cord Meyer.
Author: Meyer, Henry Cord, 1913-2001
Publication: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1991.

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Description

273 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

Comprised of ten topical essays on the history of rigid airships and the men involved in their development.

Series Statement

Smithsonian history of aviation series

Uniform Title

Smithsonian history of aviation series

Subject

Genre/Form

History
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-269) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Foreword [by] Douglas H. Robinson -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- In search of the real count Zeppelin -- In the shadow of the titan: thoughts on the life and work of naval engineer Johann Schütte -- Building Rigid Airships: three communities and their changing fortunes -- Eckener's struggle to save the airship for German, 1919-1929 -- Zeppelin intermezzos in Detroit, 1920 and 1924 -- The political origins of the airship Graf Zeppelin, 1924-1937 -- Politics, personality, and technology: airships in the manipulations of Dr. Hugo Eckener and Lord Thomson, 1919-1930 -- F.W. (Willy) von Meister: portrait of an airship businessman -- Problems of helium and spy flights: the brief career of LZ 130 -- Conclusion -- Notes.

ISBN

1560980311 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^90022345^

OCLC

22710600

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library