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

Above them was a suspended zeppelin: Imagine a giant balloon of a baked potato floating over 34th Street in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2023

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

The great ribbed belly of the zeppelin bulked over the bomb, straining at its cables in the wind, its silver sides running with moisture.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

German zeppelins had been filled with hydrogen from the beginning, and, by 1937, after hundreds of commercial flights, boasted a perfect safety record.

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

Then came another flash of lightning, and this time the jagged fork struck down direct from the thunderhead at one of the zeppelins.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman