zeppelin

The zeppelin design, which placed individual gas-filled containers within a rigidly framed outer envelope, was invented around the turn of the 20th century by Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a German aristocrat and general.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Celmins’ 1968 drawings of old black-and-white photographs torn from history books — a 1930s zeppelin airship, Hiroshima’s nearly obliterated 1945 landscape — begin with a sheet of paper prepared with a ground of snow-white acrylic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

In groundbreaking work published last year, the Harvard team deduced that the stellar halo is tilted and elliptical in shape, like a zeppelin or football.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2023

And Harper asks viewers to hurt themselves suspending their disbelief, most notably in an action sequence where Rachel jumps out of a plane and lands on a zeppelin called The Locker.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2023

At the zeppelin Father MacPhail had rallied the soldiers.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

The German military utilized zeppelins as early as 1915 to fly to London and bomb the city.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

In Scotland it became useful as a reconnaissance plane to protect the Forth coastline and Rosyth dockyard against German zeppelins.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2022

A museum devoted to zeppelins, plus an actual zeppelin high in the sky.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022

A team of nearly 80 scholars wrote the 85 alphabetical entries, from arsenic-laced wallpaper that poisoned Victorian families to exploding zeppelins.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

And behind them, almost lost in the sunset glare, the little dots of the zeppelins grew larger and firmer.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman