LED ZEPPELIN
Dominating a fifteen year period, surrounding 1930, the big and exciting thing in transportation was the dirigible, or zeppelin, a self-propelled, steerable balloon made rigid through internal aluminum framework. Owing to the conbustibility of the gases used to suspend these huge structures, they were considered unsafe, and were prohibited after 1937 with the crash of the Mindenberg.
Dominating a fifteen year period, surrounding 1930, the big and exciting thing in transportation was the dirigible, or zeppelin, a self-propelled, steerable balloon made rigid through internal aluminum framework. Owing to the conbustibility of the gases used to suspend these huge structures, they were considered unsafe, and were prohibited after 1937 with the crash of the Mindenberg.
Now, in 1969, a new zeppelin has appeared and begun to infuse itself into our culture. This new zeppelin, totally unique from the old, may also be considered a mode of transportation, but not in the sense of its forerunners.
