Joseph Spiess
Joseph Spiess, born 10 September 1838, in Mulhouse, and dying 31 March 1917, was a French engineer, inventor and patenter in 1873 of the first rigid airship.[1] (It wasn't constructed and flown until 1913.[2]) He is listed as located at Paris, rue Neuve-Saint-Augustin, 5.
(Of French patriotic interest is the quotation which follows, a specific assertion that the later work of Ferdinand von Zeppelin does not constitute per se invention. (Similar variations in emphasis may be noted in the comparison of French Wikipedia on Joseph Spiess, English Wikipedia on Joseph Spiess, and German Wikipedia on Joseph Spiess.)
« Le compte Zeppelin prend ses premiers brevets relatifs à un dirigeable rigide à carcasse d'aluminium. Les principes essentiels de son rigide reproduisaient ceux brevetés en 1873 par un Français, M.S. Spiess. Si on doit admirer l'énergie et la persévérance du compte Zeppelin, dans la réalisation du dirigeable rigide, on ne peut donc l'en reconnaître comme l'inventeur. »[3] (This “M.S. Spiess”, as opposed to Joseph Spiess is a matter needing further clarification.)
“The Count Zeppelin takes his first patents relative to a rigid dirigible with an aluminum shell. The essential principles of his rigid dirigible reproduced those patented in 1873 by a Frenchman, M.S. Spiess. If one must admire the energy and the perseverance of the Count Zeppelin, in the realization of the rigid dirigible, one cannot thusly therein recognize him as the inventor.”
Patents whose inventor or applicant is Joseph Spiess
- Patent FR-1873-100696 (English title: Flight control of aerostats, dirigible, rigid, aluminium, having alleged effect on later Von Zeppelin activity)
Publications by or about Joseph Spiess
- Spiess, 1909, I dirigibili al Salon Internazionale di Parigi. Il modello Spiess (Simple title: Airships at the Paris International Salon. The Spiess model, Journal: Riv. Tech. Aer. Boll. Soc. Aer. Ital.)
- Publication B2p1261e12, 1913, The French rigid airship Spiess (Simple title: The French rigid airship Spiess, Journal: Aircraft)
- Hartcup, 1974 (Simple title: The achievement of the airship)
References
- ↑ Black, 1943, p. 21.
- ↑ Joseph Spiess on English Wikipedia
- ↑ Aéro-Manuel 1914, « Chronologie Aéronautique ».
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| Birth date | 10 September 1838 |
| Death date | 31 March 1917 |
| Countries | FR |
| Locations | 5 rue Neuve-Saint-Augustin, Paris, Seine, France |
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| Tech areas | LTA, Airship, Rigid |
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