Karl Arnstein
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Karl Arnstein (March 24, 1887, Prague – December 12, 1974, Bryan, Ohio) was one of the most important 20th century airship engineers and designers in Germany and the United States of America. He was born in Prague, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) to Jewish parents. He developed stress analysis methods that have been incorporated into bridges, airships and airplane materials. Before his involvement in airships he was one of the main engineers in building the Swiss Langwieser Viaduct.
In World War I Arnstein worked on improvements to the design of the German Zeppelin airships; see Zeppelin. He was the chief designer of the U.S. Navy airships, USS Akron and USS Macon, and was employed by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation in Akron Ohio.[1][2] He also designed one of the largest airship sheds in the US for sheltering huge Zeppelins.
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[edit | edit source]- Finding aid for the Karl Arnstein Papers
- Dale Topping, Eric Brothers, When Giants Roamed the Sky - Karl Arnstein and the Rise of Airships from Zeppelin to Goodyear Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine University of Akron Press, 2000
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- 1887 births
- 1974 deaths
- 20th-century American Jews
- Engineers from Prague
- 20th-century German engineers
- American aerospace engineers
- German people of Czech-Jewish descent
- Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States
- Immigrants to the German Empire
- 20th-century American engineers
- Austrian emigrants to the United States
- Austrian emigrants to Germany