Dirigible Collection (page 7)

Amundsens airship, the Norge, over the North Pole, 1926. Raold Amundsen (1872-1928), Norwegian explorer made a successful flight over the North Pole aboard the Norge on 11-14 May 1926

An idea of the world as it would be in 1953, 1883. A young lady paying calls by personal airship among maze of telegraph and telephone wires. From Le Vingtieme Siecle (the 20th Century) by A Robida

Zeppelin attack on the suburbs of Paris, World War I, 1915. A print from Le Pays de France, 1 April 1915

Nulli Secundus, first British military steerable balloon (dirigible), 1905-1907 (c1910). Nulli Secundus (Dirigible No. 2) was built at the British Army Balloon Factory in 1905

Portrait of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Portrait from a medal commemorating Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, designer of the engine-powered dirigible airships bearing his name used by the Germans in World War I

Zeppelin airship in action during World War I, 1914. Reverse of a medal commemorating Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, designer of the engine-powered dirigible airships bearing his name used by

Zeppelin airship caught in searchlights during a bombing raid over England, 1916. On the night of 2-3 September London was bombed. Illustration published c1920

Zeppelin airship shot down at Cuffley, near Enfield, during bombing raid on London, 1916
Zeppelin airship shot down at Cuffley, near Enfield, close to London, by Lieut William Leefe Robinson of Royal Flying Corps during bombing raid on London on night of 2-3 September 1916

Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) Brazilian aeronaut, unsuccessful attempt at the Deutsch Prize
Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) Brazilian aeronaut, dirigibles and aeroplanes. Santos-Dumont coming to grief in his airship on roof of house in Quai de Passy, Paris

Henri Giffards steerable airship of 1852, 1903
Henri Giffards (1825-82) steerable airship of 1852, the first dirigible, 1903

Henri Giffards steam powered steerable (dirigible) airship, 1852
Henri Giffards (1825-82) steam powered steerable (dirigible) airship (with cigar shaped gasbag) during its ascent of 25 September 1852. From Louis Figuier Les Merveilles de la Science, Paris, c1870

Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer, 1901. Artist: George Hum
Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer, 1901. Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) made his first flight in the balloon Brasil in 1898, and later that year his second balloon, America

Crash of La Republique, 1909. The French military airship (dirigible) La Republique which made her maiden flight from Paris to Compiegne in 1908

La Republique on her maiden flight, 1908. The French military airship (dirigible) La Republique on her maiden flight from Paris to Compiegne. From Le Petit Journal. (Paris, 20 September 1908)

Giffard Dirigible, 1852. Creator: Perot
Giffard Dirigible, 1852. Woodcut by Perot depicting the left side view of French aviator Henri Giffards steam-powered airship in flight

Ever on the Ascendant - John Swain & Son, Ltd. adverrtisement, 1909. Creator: Unknown
Ever on the Ascendant - John Swain & Son, Ltd. adverrtisement, 1909. From " The British Printer Vol. XXII". [Raithby, Lawrence & Co. Ltd, London and Leicester, 1909]

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