Excerpt from Die Luftschiffahrt, Ihre Vergangenheit und Ihre Zukunft: Insbesondere das Luftschiff im Verkehr und im Kriege Ganz im Gegensatz zu der weitverbreiteten Meinung der Fachingenieure, da die Erfindung des Luftballons fur die Luftschiffahrt ein bedauernswertes Hindernis war, haben die Tatsachen heute erwiesen, da gerade der Luftballon sie am meisten gefordert hat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.