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Excerpt from Arise, America!
Possibilities of dirigible balloons, and with characteristic German persistence followed them through the vicissitudes of their experimental and development stages, never faltering for an instant to continue and pursue to a conclusion, the work which their early impressions led them to believe would ultimately meet with complete success. Count Zeppelin deserves the credit for making possible the airship of today - whether he was the inventor or whether he plagiarized the idea from the Alsatian Spiess, is neither within our province to determine or of material value to this work. The idea, whether conceived or stolen be that as it may, has ultimately given us the most versatile system of transport ever devised by man. In 1898 apparently, the idea of constructing a rigid airship of large proportions was conceived by Graf F. Von Zeppelin and two engineers, Kober and Kubler. They erected a ?oating shed for the early construction work on Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
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