Weapons of War: Zepplin 
Weapons of War
The Zeppelin
The Zeppelin was invented July 2 1900. German man, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin invented this weapon for military purposes, when he sent a memo proposing the idea in 1887 to the King of Wurttemburg. His first airship was the Luftship Zeppelin 1 (LZ-1). He piloted and commanded most of the early ships himself and died of natural causes on March 8, 1917, before the end of World War I.
The Zeppelin was an airship that flew to a maximum altitude of 21,000ft; depending on the type. They were enormous in size and were aerodynamic, due to the aluminum alloy skeleton. The Zeppelins flew over British territories at night and raided them. They dropped bombs all over and set fire to everything. The Germans wanted to bring panic and chaos to the civilians, causing the British government to back out of the war. 67 Zeppelins were built during the war. A majority of them were for the German Navy and others went to the Army. Both the Army and Navy bombed England (mainly London) and France. With a total of 52 Zeppelin raids on Britain, at least 1,500 people were killed, but the terror that they inflicted among the British spread throughout.
Over the last 100 years, Dr. Hugo Eckener took command of the Zeppelin business and had always seen these ships as vessels of peace rather than war. The largest dirigible built at the time was named the Graf Zeppelin in honour of the inventor and flew for the first time on September 18th 1928. Its purpose was to pave the way for regular airship traveling, by carrying passengers and mail. The Graf Zeppelin was planned to fly around the world in August 1929. Along with it took the reporter Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay, the first female to ride around the world by air. In 1933, Zeppelins became a propaganda tool and had to display the Nazi swastika on their fins. The largest airship ever built, The Hindenburg, was filled with flammable hydrogen gas instead of helium. On May 6th 1937, the ship burst into flames
The Zeppelin
The Zeppelin was invented July 2 1900. German man, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin invented this weapon for military purposes, when he sent a memo proposing the idea in 1887 to the King of Wurttemburg. His first airship was the Luftship Zeppelin 1 (LZ-1). He piloted and commanded most of the early ships himself and died of natural causes on March 8, 1917, before the end of World War I.
The Zeppelin was an airship that flew to a maximum altitude of 21,000ft; depending on the type. They were enormous in size and were aerodynamic, due to the aluminum alloy skeleton. The Zeppelins flew over British territories at night and raided them. They dropped bombs all over and set fire to everything. The Germans wanted to bring panic and chaos to the civilians, causing the British government to back out of the war. 67 Zeppelins were built during the war. A majority of them were for the German Navy and others went to the Army. Both the Army and Navy bombed England (mainly London) and France. With a total of 52 Zeppelin raids on Britain, at least 1,500 people were killed, but the terror that they inflicted among the British spread throughout.
Over the last 100 years, Dr. Hugo Eckener took command of the Zeppelin business and had always seen these ships as vessels of peace rather than war. The largest dirigible built at the time was named the Graf Zeppelin in honour of the inventor and flew for the first time on September 18th 1928. Its purpose was to pave the way for regular airship traveling, by carrying passengers and mail. The Graf Zeppelin was planned to fly around the world in August 1929. Along with it took the reporter Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay, the first female to ride around the world by air. In 1933, Zeppelins became a propaganda tool and had to display the Nazi swastika on their fins. The largest airship ever built, The Hindenburg, was filled with flammable hydrogen gas instead of helium. On May 6th 1937, the ship burst into flames