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Updated: May 12, 2025
Sharp, stabbing shafts of light from the powerful electric lanterns shot aloft, and now and then one of them would rest for an instant on a great silvery cigar-shape the gas bag of the big German airships that were beating their way toward Paris, there to deal death and destruction. "Come on!" cried Tom, as his mechanician started the motor. "I'm going to get a Zep!"
In the effort to make balloons dirigible one of the first steps was to change the form from the spherical or pear-shaped bag to a cylindrical, or cigar-shape. This device was adopted by the brothers Robert in France as early as 1784.
If the Pandora lies in one of these you'll need a great strength of walls to your submarine to withstand the pressure of deep water." The craft Tom Swift proposed to use in searching for the treasure ship Pandora was of the regular cigar-shape, but inside it had many special features.
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