This count retired from the Prussian army in 1891 to build the motor-driven airships that bore his name
He invented the first rigid airship in 1900, and in 1906 built
... [DOC] [TLE] count ferdinand graf von zeppelin - Angelfire [PAR] It wasn't until September 2, 1916 that the British pulled the first airship out of the ... 
in 1863 to work as a military observer for the Union army and observed the Civil 
War.