Josh Clark
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The first one, I think, was in 1850, like you said.
The next one, and that seemed more like a little like, hey, everybody, check this thing out.
In 1852, you got the first full-size one.
It was really the French and Germans leading this charge.
It was a French engineer named Jules-Henri Guéffard.
size motor of a really good push mower lawn mower yeah I mean you know you're up there in the sky so you're you don't have to give it a lot to get it going and again they're not going very fast six to ten miles an hour all of these so far have been non-rigid by the way the first rigid one came in 1899 courtesy of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin that's where that word and eventual band name would come from yeah
And as far as the band, I can't remember who said it.
This is off the dome, but somebody said something about them going over.
They would go over like a Led Zeppelin.
Obviously, that's a two contradictory terms.
And that's what they meant.
They're being sort of cheeky.
And of course, you know, it was the Hindenburg was on the cover of their first record of their debut album.