I know this is entirely beside the point, but in 1901 Zeppelin’s first airship company collapsed, having built one prototype. The word wasn’t exactly a genericized trademark yet.
And imperial units such as the mile weren’t standardized yet across countries, nor was the metre defined in terms of c and the second, so c wasn’t “exactly 670616629.2 miles per hour” according to the 1901 meaning of mile.
I know this is entirely beside the point, but in 1901 Zeppelin’s first airship company collapsed, having built one prototype. The word wasn’t exactly a genericized trademark yet.
And imperial units such as the mile weren’t standardized yet across countries, nor was the metre defined in terms of c and the second, so c wasn’t “exactly 670616629.2 miles per hour” according to the 1901 meaning of mile.