The Archive · 1936

INVENTOR OF "SAUSAGE" OBSERVES BIRTHDAY

Berlin, Feb. 6, the observation balloon adopt-9 by the German army in 1897 and known as the "sausage," was feted ies of various army represen~ of his. 75th Birthday. Use of the "sausage" was' aS.adoned by the Germans. during. the Great War, in view of its vulner ability. Herr von Parzeval, who now a Privat Docent of the High Technical School of Charlottenburg also built, before the World War, 27 Ron-rigid dirigibles which competed the first Zeppelins—Havas.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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