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Updated: May 5, 2025
"Back of the mountains, along the Rhone from Dusseldorf to Strasbourg, there are a dozen aero stations, some of them devoted to aeroplanes and dirigibles, others to dirigibles alone.
If his country needed him, if war had to be.... On our way back to Rome across the Campagna we saw a huge silver fish swimming lazily in the misty blue sky one of Italy's new dirigibles exercising. There were soldiers everywhere in their new gray linen clothes tanned, boyish faces, many of them fine large fellows, scooped up from villages and towns all over Italy.
"We shall use hand-grenades, explosives from dirigibles, every known power of destruction. So will the Browns, you may be sure. In such a cataclysm we shall have no time for niceties. The peace societies will have hardly formulated their protests to The Hague before the war is over. Our answer will be our victory the power that goes with the prestige of unconquerable force.
In his words, "Dirigibles are seemingly useless in defence against the aeroplane or gun-fire." In order to be able to make an invasion in force upon Great Britain's cities extremely favourable weather must prevail, and the treacherous nature of the weather conditions of the North Sea are known fully well both to British and Teuton navigators.
In the matter of airships, Germany was markedly favored by the possession of the Zeppelin type, whose speed and endurance is still unequaled by the smaller, nonrigid dirigibles which constitute the chief bulk of the British, French, Italian, and Russian fleets of "lighter-than-air" machines.
"There can always be war," said the judge's son, "always when one people determines to strike at another people even if it brings bankruptcy." "It would be a war that would make all others in history a mere exchange of skirmishes. Every able-bodied man in line automatics a hundred shots a minute guns a dozen shots a minute and aeroplanes and dirigibles!" said the manufacturer's son.
The watchers in the Eiffel Tower, seeing the heavens with their searchlights for German planes and German dirigibles, saw the first core bomb bore through the sky from the direction of Verdun, followed by its seven comrades, and saw each bomb explode in the Bois below.
Other types sprung up, notably the Schutte-Lanz, the Gross, and the Parseval. But being first in the field the Zeppelin came to give its name to all the dirigibles of German make and many of the famous or infamous exploits credited to it during the war may in fact have been performed by one of its rivals. It would be futile to attempt to enumerate all these rivals here.
It is probable that the diversion of his interest from dirigibles to airplanes had most to do with his failure to carry his development further than he did. "No. VI." was 108 feet long, and 20 feet in diameter with an eighteen-horse-power gasoline engine which could drive it at about nineteen miles an hour. Naturally the aeronaut's first thought in his new construction was of the valves.
By this time inventive genius in all countries save the United States which lagged in interest in dirigibles was stimulated.
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