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Count Zeppelin's airship made its first flight over Lake Constance (or Bodensee) in southern Germany on July 2, 1900. Courtesy Library of Congress 1899: Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin receives a U.S.

BERLIN, July 14, 1908 (UP) -- Count Zeppelin with 15 guests aboard his giant airship, ascended from Friedrichshaven for a 24-hour cruise, the crucial test of all his numerous aeronautic ventures. A ...

BERLIN, Nov. 10, 1908 (UP) - Emperor William of Germany made a flight Tuesday in Count Zeppelin's airship. It was the first trip in the air ever made by a ruler of a nation. The emperor started on the ...

Soon, with hardly a murmur from the propellers, we were floating 300m above Lake Bodensee and looking down through the gondola windows on to history. Arguably, the skies above Friedrichshafen in ...

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