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Karl Arnstein (March 24, 1887, Prague – December 12, 1974,
Bryan, Ohio
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History
Bryan was platted in 1840 by John ...
) was one of the most important 20th century
airship
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In early ...
engineers and designers in
Germany
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and the
United States of America
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. He was born in
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and List of cities in the Czech Republic, largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 milli ...
,
Bohemia (now the
Czech Republic
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) to Jewish parents. He developed
stress analysis
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methods that have been incorporated into
bridges
A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually someth ...
,
airship
An airship or dirigible balloon is a type of aerostat or lighter-than-air aircraft that can navigate through the air under its own power. Aerostats gain their lift from a lifting gas that is less dense than the surrounding air.
In early ...
s and
airplane
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materials. Before his involvement in airships he was one of the main engineers in building the Swiss
Langwieser Viaduct
The Langwieser Viaduct (or Langwies Viaduct; german: Langwieser Viadukt) is a single track reinforced concrete railway bridge spanning the Plessur River and the Sapünerbach, near Langwies, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.
It was de ...
.
In World War I Arnstein worked on improvements to the design of the German Zeppelin airships; see
Zeppelin
A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German inventor Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin () who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century. Zeppelin's notions were first formulated in 1874Eckener 1938, pp ...
. He was the chief designer of the
U.S. Navy
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airships,
USS Akron
USS ''Akron'' (ZRS-4) was a helium-filled rigid airship of the U.S. Navy, the lead ship of her class, which operated between September 1931 and April 1933. It was the world's first purpose-built flying aircraft carrier, carrying F9C Sparrow ...
and
USS Macon and was employed by the
Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation in Akron Ohio.
He also designed one of the largest
airship sheds in the USA for sheltering huge Zeppelins.
References
External links
Finding aid for the Karl Arnstein Papers* Dale Topping, Eric Brothers
University of Akron Press, 2000
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1887 births
1974 deaths
20th-century Czech people
Engineers from Prague
20th-century German engineers
American aerospace engineers
German people of Czech-Jewish descent
German emigrants to the United States
20th-century American engineers
Austro-Hungarian emigrants to Germany