Wolfgang B. Klemperer papers, 1909-1974.

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Wolfgang B. Klemperer papers, 1909-1974.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/65471706

The Wolfgang Klemperer collection includes correspondence, photographs, reports, and other materials regarding his career as an aviator and aeronautical engineer. Most of the correspondence regards his post-World War II engineering activities. The photographic materials are of particular interest, providing visual documentation of his aviation activities during World War I and his work in the development of zeppelins in Germany and the United States. The reports are records of engineering work he performed for both Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation and Douglas Aircraft.

3.6 cubic ft. (7 boxes)

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation

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The Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation was formed in 1923 as a partnership between the Goodyear Corporation and the Zeppelin Company to build rigid-frame airships in the United States. The company built an enormous hangar in Wingfoot Lake, near Akron Ohio, for this purpose. In 1929, Goodyear-Zeppelin built a new airship dock in Los Angeles, the subject of this collection, which eventually became known as the Wingfoot Plant. Goodyear-Zeppelin built not only dirigibles but also blimps, F4U Corsair figh...

Klemperer, Wolfgang B.

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Wolfgang Benjamin Klemperer was born in Dresden, Germany on January 18, 1893. He joined the Austrian Air Force in 1915 as a pilot and helped to develop weaponry on military aircraft. He graduated from the Dresden Institute of Technology in 1920, taught at the Aachen Aerodynamics Institute, and completed his doctorate in engineering in 1924 at the Aachen Institute of Technology. Klemperer was a pioneer in non-motorized flight in the early 1920s. He was a glider pilot and helped to organize severa...

Douglas aircraft company

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