air ship

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A balloon without propelling or steering apparatus is not an air-ship.

From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth

The air-ship must, of course, use a very light motor.

From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth

First air-ship in regular passenger service—Count Zeppelin, Germany, 1910.

From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth

Along the bottom runs a walking-way from which access is gained to the cars and various parts of the air-ship.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

Perhaps a feasible means of propelling such an air-ship would be by a kind of trolley system where the rod would hang down from the car to the stretched wire, instead of extending upward.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 by Various