Swedish poster for Cecil B. De Mille’s Madam Satan, 1930
Tag: Airships
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The World Changes, Thanks to Warner Bros.
Two page advertisement for Warner Brothers pictures in the Motion Picture Herald, 1933
Arial Battle
Promotional shot of Arial Battle Scene in the 1930 film Hell’s Angels.
New “Worm” Airship
Herr Zorn, a German inventor, has turned the worm into an airship, applying all the worm principles to navigation above ground instead of below. The Zorn airship is long and slender, with three parts which may be twisted In any direction, and uncoupled at will for separate maneuvers.
Seven Wonders of the World, 1908
The new wonders of the last few months are:
New York’s 48-story office building
The new 30,000-ton ocean greyhound Lusitania
The War airships being perfected in Europe
Marconi’s transatlantic wireless telegraphy
The powerful electric locomotive for railways
The camera phonograph.
Edison’s $1000 concrete house, built in 12 hours.
These are by no means the “seven wonders of the modern world,” they are the seven wonders of today
Domenica Del Corriere, Mar 24, 1918
Frank Reade’s Electric Bird
Hindenburg, Before and After.
Hindenburg under construction, 1935
Hindenburg disaster May 6, 1937
Arial Houseboats of Mars
THE planet Mars which is now attracting worldwide attention, may well be termed the planet of romance, since it is enveloped in a mysterious charm, giving the imagination full sway. Some romanticists like Flammarion have pictured the inhabitants of Mars as winged creatures, though whether they arc of the nature of bird, bat or butterfly the French scientist has not at tempted to decide.
It is a strange coincidence, however, that the outlines of the darker portions of the surface of the planet, as delineated by Prof. Percival Lowell of the Flagstaff observatory, Arizona, show a remarkable resemblance to huge batlike creatures apparently floating in the Martian atmosphere. Once the attention is drawn to the strange outlines the wonder is that these seeming aeroplanes of batlike appearance have so far escaped detection. Since flights of imagination regarding Mars seem to be in the ascendant at present owing to the fact that the planet will be at its nearest, and consequently well .placed for observation, during the month of September of this year, may one be permitted to weave the following fanciful theory around the planet of romance?
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May not these huge batlike outlines be airships constructed by the Martians for use in the hour of direst need, in which they ascend above the surface of their planet when they know the springtime floods are due? Just as the Egyptians of old fled from certain regions on the banks of the Nile when they observed Sirius, the dogstar, rising in the morning sky before dawn, warning them of the approaching flood, so the gradual melting of the icecap must be in the nature of a signal to the Martians to embark on their aeroplanes and airships.
excerpt from the The San Francisco Call, October 03, 1909
Domenica Del Corriere, Dec 2, 1962
