Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich, Graf Von Zeppelin
1838-1917
German Military Officer and Inventor
Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin was responsible for the development of the dirigible, a lighter-than-air v...
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The son of German nobility, Zeppelin entered the military and, as was expected of aristocrats of the time, served in the American Civil War. While in the United States, he became interested in air tra...
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Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich, Graf Von Zeppelin
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin