How British battleships are able to house dirigibles
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Title (Dublin Core)
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How British battleships are able to house dirigibles
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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How a Blimp Manages to Live on a Battleship
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FROM little gas-bags
great blimps grow;
and so by making room
for the gas-bags British
battleships are able to
house the blimps. Each
blimp is assigned a
small space on deck—
just about large enough
to hold the car it car-
ries. Then, when the
blimp comes home after
a day's work of polie-
ing the ocean, she is
promptly deflated and
tucked in her car.
The British dirigible
is built on - principles
directly opposite to
those used in construct-
ing the German Zep-
pelin. The Zeppelin is
rigid, the blimp non-
rigid. In the Zeppelin,
the framework and
outer bag are made
of aluminum. In the
blimp the outer bag is
made of cloth. Inside
there are several bal- |
lonnets which are filled
with gas. The outer
case is made stiff by
compressed air, fed to
it by the pilot in the
car beneath.
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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Keystone View Company (image copyright)
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-08
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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66
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 95, n. 2, 1919
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