Pascal, Janet B.
Summary: At 800-feet long, the Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built--just slightly smaller than the Titanic! Also of a disastrous end, the zeppelin burst into flame as spectators watched it attempt to land in Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937. In under a minute, the Hindenburg was gone, people jumping from windows to escape. However, only 62 of the 97 crew members and passengers onboard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT World What PascalSummary: On May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg, the world's largest airship, ignited in a giant fireball as it prepared to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey - a disaster immortalized by searing newsreel footage and Herbert Morrison's unforgettable 'Oh, the humanity!' commentary. The chain of events that ignited Hindenburg's hydrogen remains one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HINDeAngelis, Gina.
Summary: Describes the development and early flights of airships and the disastrous explosion of the passenger airship, Hindenberg, at a New Jersey airfield on May 6, 1937, in which thirty-six people were killed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Pub. 2001
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Summary: "Reporters gathered in the rain to watch in awe as the Hindenburg was scheduled to touch down on May 6, 1937. Their awe quickly turned to horror as the airship burst into flames and plunged to the ground. Follow along with the true story of a doomed airship that changed the course of aviation. Then, review what you've learned with a recap timeline and a quick quiz to check how much doomed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.12 COOBenoit, Peter
Summary: Describes the crash of the Hindenburg airship in 1937, relaying the history of international airship flight and the events leading to the disaster, and explains what measures have been taken to make airship travel safer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.12 BENBurton, Anthony
Summary: This book tells the often dramatic and always fascinating story of flight in lighter than air machines. For centuries man had dreamed of flying, but all attempts failed, until in 1782 the Montgolfier brothers constructed the world's first hot air balloon The following year saw the first ascent with aeronauts - not human beings but a sheep, a duck and a cockerel. But it was not long before men...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pen & Sword Transport, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.133 BURGwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)
Summary: "The tragic story of the British airship R101--which went down in a spectacular hydrogen-fueled fireball in 1930, killing more people than died in the Hindenburg disaster seven years later--has been largely forgotten. In His Majesty's Airship, historian S.C. Gwynne resurrects it in vivid detail, telling the epic story of great ambition gone terribly wrong. Airships, those airborne leviathans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.12 GWYSummary: Graham Dorrington is an enthusiastic English aeronautical engineer on a mission to revive the airship, that ill-fated aeronautic conveyance otherwise known as the dirigible or zeppelin, to fly over the Amazon canopy. His eagerness is diminished by the memory an incident 10 years earlier, in which photographer Dieter Plage was killed. This film records an expedition to Guyana, where Dorrington...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media, Inc. 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHIGraham, Ian
Summary: A skilled mechanic in 1930s Germany is offered a job on the most magnificent airship ever built, the Hindenberg. But dangers from flammable gas, storms and lightning are there. Follows the airship as it bursts into flame and investigates the cause of the disaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 387.7 GRAPiesing, Mark
Summary: "The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.8 PIEArchbold, Rick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1994
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 629.1332 ARCPreston, Diana
Summary: "In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought. On April 22, at Ypres, German canisters spewed poison gas at French and Canadian soldiers in their trenches; on May 7, the German submarine U-20, without warning, torpedoed the passenger liner Lusitania, killing 1,198 civilians; and on May 31, a German Zeppelin began the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 PRERose, Alexander
Summary: "Of all people who might have solved the problem of human flight, few would have suspected Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a fusty, old-school member of the Wurrtemburg nobility, recently ousted from the German military and convinced that a flying machine will be his ticket back to military glory. Instead, by the dawn of the twentieth century, he creates something much bigger: a system of flight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.7092 ROSHall, George
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Publisher / Publication Date: Squarebooks 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.133 LarsoGriffith, Victoria.
Summary: Profiles Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, who made great strides in the invention of flight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.13 GRIVeitch, Catherine
Summary: "These fabulous books are a must for any young reader with an interest in vehicles and machines. Each book is filled with amazing machines, fun facts, jokes, and age-appropriate text in colorful boxes. This book takes a close look at machines that can fly including super jumbo jets, rockets, and space shuttles. Find out which flying machine is the mightiest of them all!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.1 VEIBenford, Gregory
Summary: Reveals predictions made in "Popular Mechanics" magazine between 1903 and 1969 about what the future would hold!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 609 BENOxlade, Chris.
Summary: Discover the engineers and the stories behind some of the world's fastest and most expensive transport machines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629 OXLGarstecki, Julia
Summary: "Uncover the coolest ships used by militaries around the world with leveled text, infograhics, and up-close photos"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rabbit Books 2018
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Summary: An introduction to the United States Navy that provides information on its history, training, equipment, responsibilities in wartime and peacetime, and other related topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Co 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 359 HAMDowswell, Paul.
Summary: From shark attacks and blazing airships to exploding spacecraft and sinking submarines, this is a collection of real stories of people who have stared death in the face and lived to tell the tale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Pub. 2002
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DOWLüsted, Marcia Amidon
Summary: Packed with exciting facts and important aspects on military ships, this title also provides historical context, compelling photos, primary source quotations, and critical thinking activities. The title also includes a glossary, web links, and additional resources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2015