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

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

An ovoid-shaped airship calls to mind a 1920s-era zeppelin, although Vermette explains, “It’s basically an armadillo that’s been squashed.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2022

Heads began to turn and scan the dark sky for the zeppelin, whose gas engine was throbbing clearly in the still air.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

Today the slow-moving, sausage-shaped crafts called zeppelins might seem hopelessly antiquated, but in the mid-1930s they soared at the pinnacle of technology and modernity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

Will heard a change in the sounds from outside: there was another note now as well as the roar of the zeppelins.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman