Balloons, Zeppelins & Dirigibles: Ideas Fabulous and Not So

JF Ptak Science Books LLC

I should've included this list in yesterday's post about a 1909 zeppelin tramway but it slipped my mind. Here then are most of the posts I've made on zeppelins, balloons and dirigibles, mostly having to do with unusual deep-thought applications of their soon-to-be-replaced technologies.

I like the History of Horses in Flight the most...

Towards a History of Horses in Flight in the 19th C (here) 

 

Balloon Bridges and 600-Foot-Long Airships  (here)  

 

Escape Pods for Women Balloonists, 1820: the Fabulous "Minerve" Balloon (here)

History of the Future: Electric Balloons, Tethered Eagles and an 18th century Space Station  (here)

Zeppelin paper Model 1924  (here)

Advanced Sci-Fi Dirigible Notion, 1909 (here)

 

Vision: Looking Straight Up, Down, Across and Through--1525-1905  (here)