The Hindenburg disaster of 1937 changed the world of air travel in the 30’s. From a world with airships commonly and widely used to them almost non-existent. Airship travel was a fast and luxurious way to travel in the 30’s. Thousands of successful trips were made on airships without injury on a weekly basis. Commercial zeppelins had been around for about 30 years before this event. Back in the day the Hindenburg was the fasted way to travel across the Atlantic ocean. The Hindenburg consisted of a dining room, lounge, comfortable cabins, and a smoking room. 7 million cubic feet of nitrogen gas held the Hindenburg up but ironically and unfortunately it would also bring the large zeppelin down in a fireball mess. The reason the airship
The Hindenburg disaster happened in 1937. The cause of the disaster was an electrostatic discharge which lead to igniting the hydrogen that was leaking. The ship before it crush had a major problems with hydrogen leaking. So until today the investigation show that the spark happened because of the difference of electric charge of the airship and the atmosphere which 60 meters about sea level to ignite fire in the ship. The ship didn’t last long in the air because it was filled with flammable gas.
There are many hypothesis that try to explain why the Hindenburg exploded in flame. One of the theories argues that the fire was started by an electrical spark which was caused by the buildup of electrical static. Some say that the skin covering the duralumin frame (aka dope) was not designed to evenly distribute its charge throughout the fabric. The skin and the frame were separated by non-conductive cords that were covered in metal to improve conductivity (but not very effectively), allowing a huge difference of electrical potential to build up. When the Hindenburg landed, a mooring line grounded the frame but not the skin creating an electrical spark from the differences in potential. The spark, trying to find the closest way to the ground
The speed of the titanic was very fast, she would move 21 knots and 60,000 tons moved when she was upon sea. Titanic’s engines had the power of 46,000 horses and her fires consumed a ton of coal every 2 minutes. (Davenport- Hines, Richard. Pg. 22).
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, or Slim to his close friend, was a simple airmail pilot who gained world fame for his record-breaking flight across the Atlantic. He is often considered the greatest aviator of all time, and using his fame, has played a large role in the development promotion of aviation and even space travel.
“Never before had so much brain-power been focused on a single problem.”(Laurence qtd. in “Eyewitness”). Many inventions can be said to have changed the world, and the way it worked. Only a core few of these many inventions can be said to change air warfare, and few of those are as game-changing as the B-29 Superfortress by Boeing. The B-29 was the plane that dropped the atomic bombs in World War Two (“bomber”). The plane by Boeing was used most in World War Two as a strategic long-range bomber. This invention revolutionized the concept of war, and war is a factor in all life on planet earth. The B-29 bomber changed warfare by sparking the innovation of aircraft technology, saving lives, and allowing more power to be carried by the means
Blimps are a source of transportation they are like a plane but they require hot air, the germans mainly used blimps, the blimp has 2 propellers on the bottom middle which can turn but it’s not that good thats why they have fins on the back of the blimp to turn. They are less sturdy than planes from their structure and material because they need to hold air so they combust often. There was a blimp in Hindenburg that killed many people when it combusted, blimps are not that safe like i said before but since they were easier to make they made them a lot so that caused many deaths back then, but the Hindenburg caused the most deaths. Blimps have their structure made out of fixed keel the outside of it is called the envelope. There has been a whole lot more blimp combustions before
In the corners of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, stand two fascinating characters—Pearl and Roger Chillingsworth. In the story, Pearl is the illegitimate child of the protagonist, Hester Prynne, and the minister, Arthur Dimmesdale, while Chillingsworth is Hester’s estranged husband who everyone thought was dead. Both of these two supporting characters have a surreal presences and each are deeply involved in Hester’s life, particularly her life after the discovery of her adultry. With as many similarities as they have, the reader may question what the respective rolls of these two characters are. Much has been said about the characters individually, but in this paper I will explore how the characters relate to each other in the telling of the story. Based on the similarities, differences, and roles that the characters play in the story; I will explain how they many in fact be read as foils of one another.
In the 1920’s Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., created The Museum of Modern Art in 1929. Its founding director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., wanted the Museum to be dedicated to helping people understand and enjoy the visual arts of our time, and that it might provide New York with “the greatest museum of modern art in the world.”MoMA also owns about two million film stills. The Museum has a collection of modern and contemporary art exhibitions with a wide range of subject matter, mediums, and time periods, highlighting significant recent developments in the visual arts and new interpretations of major artists and art historical movements.The Museum is dedicated to its role as an educational institution and provides a program of activities set out to help both the general public and special segments of the community in approaching and understanding the world of modern and contemporary art. Today, The Museum of Modern Art welcome millions of visitors every year.
On this day 79 years ago the Hindenburg crashed. You may not know it but the Hindenburg was the first disaster caught on film. Some believe that the Hindenburg exploded by a helium leak. The Hindenburg had over 61 passengers on the zeppelin. The Hindenburg exploded on May 6th, 1937 when trying Lakehurst Naval Air Station. The Naval Air Station was in New Jersey.
35 people were killed and all the living refused to use zeppelins anymore. They were too scared.
The Challenger Disaster was one of the biggest events of the 1980’s. It symbolized that space travel is a challenging endeavor which bears it’s own set of risks, especially when the entirety of the shuttle program was plagued with issues up until the Challenger incident. Initially, America put a ton of resources into the space program in order to achieve the goal of winning the Space Race. Once that goal was achieved, America’s space program was scaled down to a fraction of the previous budget (space.com article). Out of the small budget, the shuttle program came into existence. During it’s conception, various bedget cuts and
Have you ever heard of the Hindenburg disaster of the Titanic sinking. Well the many similarities and differences between them. So I'm going to tell you some. Some of the similarities are that they had many people on it so many people died. Most of the people on the Titanic and the Hindenburg for rich or wealthy people.
To avoid this problem, they started air services over the English Channel by countries such as Great Britain and France but there is no challenge isolating cities where could transport people as fast as an airplane and more comfort. Commercial aviation was bad during World War One beause focusing into design and production efforts on building military aircraft. Nation ‘s destiny in a war whether armies on the ground or navies on the sea can be the expert even when the day passes but the power of initiative and main power of defence against the enemy has passed to the air-Brigadier General Billy Mitchell,November 1918. The impact during World War One was a full retrospect mainly about the strategic bombing which began in January 1915 where
During the war some Southern newspapers said that Abraham Lincoln had observed a test of the flamethrower weapon. The first recorded use of hand-held flamethrowers in combat was on February 26, 1915. In the war, if your weapon ran out of ammo or your weapon broke you would have to find one on the battlefield. The German army was the first to use chlorine gas at the battle of Ypres in 1915. Chlorine gas causes a burning feeling in your throat and chest pains. The problem with chlorine gas is that the weather must be right. If the wind is in the wrong direction it could end up killing your own troops rather than the enemy. Mustard gas was the most deadly weapon used. It was fired into the trenches in shells. It has no color and takes 12 hours to take effect. Those gases are the enemies worst nightmares. There is a game called Battlefield 1 that I play the game is based off of WW1. While playing something I saw a cool looking blimp in the air and I wanted to know about it. Apparently it’s called a Zeppelin. The Zeppelin, also known as a blimp, was an airship that was used during the early part of the war in bombing raids by the Germans. They carried machine guns and bombs. However, they were abandoned because they were easy to shoot out of the sky. I got this definition from google. Of course in WW1 they used tanks. Tanks were used for the first time in the First World War at the Battle of the Somme. They were developed to cope with the conditions on the
Imagine that someone you love or someone very close to you is a victim of a very serious crime, a crime so serious that the person who committed it is now sitting on death row with limited time left to live. How do you think you would feel? Would you be thinking that they deserved to die? Or would you be hoping that evidence would come to light to show them innocent or, even though the crime was horrific would you think they don’t deserve to be punished by death? Would you want to watch the person die at the hands of the law to ensure justice has been served or would you rather they spend the rest of their life in prison as punishment? When violent crime affects you personally it can make the death penalty look like a good option. The