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Sept. 3, 1925: Shenandoah Crash a Harbinger of Grim Future
1925: Caught in a squall over southeastern Ohio, the Navy dirigible USS Shenandoah breaks up and crashes into a field, killing 14 of the 43 men aboard. It is the first of three major accidents that...
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May 6, 1937: A Ball of Fire und Alles Ist Kaput
1937: The German passenger zeppelin Hindenburg explodes and crashes while landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 people and dooming the future of commercial trans-Atlantic zeppelin service. The...
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Nov. 7, 1905: Remote Control Wows Public
1905: Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres-Quevedo uses a radio remote controller to operate a boat more than a mile away in the Bilbao estuary. The crowd is amazed. Guglielmo Marconi’s famous wireless...
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March 14, 1899: Zeppelin Gets Patent for a Really Big Idea
The era of the rigid airship dawns at the threshold of the 20th century, and the zeppelin, or dirigible, remains a major force in aviation right up to the beginning of World War II. The post March 14,...
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