The first practical oxygen tent was invented by Doctor Benjamin Eliasoph in 1921 at The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, with rubberized fabric (There were no usable plastics then) from the Goodyear Rubber Company, Aeronautical Division, widely known for the Goodyear Blimp. Hot...
Goodrich produced its first automobile tire in 1896. To help distinguish itself from the similarly named Goodyear Tire Corp., Goodrich ran television ads with the tag line, "See that blimp up in the sky? We're the other guys!" Goodyear had the blimps; Goodrich did not. by Cheryl Teal ...
The first practical oxygen tent was invented by Doctor Benjamin Eliasoph in 1921 at The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, with rubberized fabric (There were no usable plastics then) from the Goodyear Rubber Company, Aeronautical Division, widely known for the Goodyear Blimp. Hot...
The Hindenburg took its first flight in 1936. That year, the vessel went on 10 round trips between Germany and the United States and carried a total of 1,002 passengers during the journeys, according to History.com. The vessel could carry up to50 passengersand had room for the airship's...
It’s not a blimp; it’s a zeppelin. Credit: Goodyear The last category is pretty much synonymous with blimps, where pressure from the gas within the envelope of the airship maintains its shape. A semi-rigid airship is sort of like a blimp but, as the name implies, there is at lea...
One drug, let’s say a chemotherapeutic drug,a molecule, is about one nanometer or so. And then the nanoparticle, let’s say, is about 100 nanometers. And that difference really represents the scale of, like, a soccer ball to a Goodyear blimp.And the reason why I mention that is bec...
“inevitably, the movieBlack Sundayhas been recalled here. In it, a Palestinian terrorist takes over a Goodyear blimp at the Super Bowl, planning to strafe the crowd.”4Despite reporting no basis for concern—and despite the fact that at that very moment the US was deploying violence ...
1 of 14 Prev Next CNN — It’s New Year’s Eve, and we’re suspended 2,000 feet above Atlanta by an iconic bag of gas. It’s kind of hard to believe I’m actually flying the Goodyear blimp. For a guy with zero piloting experience, I have to ask: Is this legal? “Yep...