August 21, 2018
In this article, Melissa Rogers, science curriculum developer for the Smithsonian Science Education Center, talks about the 180th anniversary of the birth of Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin. Zeppelin was an engineer whose self-named company made the first successful rigid airship. The path from his inspiration during a balloon trip in Minnesota in 1863 and the successful flight of Zeppelin LZ1 in 1900 is a great example of the engineering design process in action.
Read more at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-science-edu...