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Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin (July 8, 1838 -March 8, 1917) was a German general and later aircraft manufacturer. He founded the Zeppelin Airship company, served as a volunteer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He visited the balloon camp of Thaddeus Lowe who introduced him to the German aeronaut John Steiner. His first ascent in a balloon during this visit is said to have been the incentive of his later experiments in aeronautics. Back in Germany, he saw active service in the Austrian war of 1866 and in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. From the 1880s onward, he was preoccupied with the idea of guidable balloons. After his resignation from the army in 1891 at age 52, he devoted his full attention to airships. His idea was for a rigid alumiium framework covered in a fabric envelope; separate multiple internal gas cells, each free to expand and contract thus obviating the need for ballonets; modular frame allowing addition of sections and gas cells; con...