He is primarily remembered for designing and piloting the airship Norge, which may have been the first aircraft to reach the North Pole, and which was indisputably the first to fly across the polar ice cap from Europe to America. Nobile also designed and flew the Italia, a second polar ...
It was later that he came under the influence of Muller, believing in the State’s capacity of ‘monetizing’ commodities, a view which was subsequently developed by Knapp into a “state theory of monetary economics.” Toward the end of his life, Gentz turned to ...