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Glockenspiel mit OzeanbezwingerCarillon with Conquerers of the Ocean |
Bernhard Hoetger
1934 |
leif, karlsefni Leifur Eiríksson - Leif Ericson (c. 970 - c. 1020), Norse explorer regarded as the first European to land in North America in 1000. He established a settlement at Vinland - identified with L'Anse aux Meadows on Newfoundland (Wikipedia).Þorfinnur Karlsefni Þórðarson, Icelandic explorer; around 1010 he followed Leif Eriksson's discovered route to Vinland in a short-lived attempt to establish a permanent settlement there with his passengers and crew (Wikipedia). |
pining, pothorst Didrik Pining (c. 1430-1491), German privateer, nobleman and governor of Iceland and Vardøhus, and Hans Pothorst (c. 1440-1490). They are most notable because some have proposed that they may have landed in North America in the 1470s (Wikipedia: Pining and Pothorst). |
columbus Christopher Columbus (prob. Cogoleto, Republic of Genua, c. 1451 - Valladolid 1506), Italian explorer, who in Spanish service completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of America (see Background Information). |
fulton Robert Fulton (Little Britain, Pennsylvania, 1765 - New York 1815), American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat (Wikipedia). |
könig Paul König (Rohr 1867 - Gnadau 1933), captain of the German merchant-submarine Deutschland which made its maiden voyage in Juni 1916 from Bremerhaven to Baltimore (Wikipedia). |
scott, brown, alcock Arthur Whitten Brown (Glasgow 1886 - Swansea 1948) and Capitain John Alcock (Seymour Grove, Old Trafford, 1892 - Cottévrard near Rouen 1919), the crew of the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic in June 1919; Herbert Scott (London 1888 - Beauvais, France 1930), commander of R 34, the first airship to cross the ocean only two weeks later (Wikipedia: Brown, Alcock and Scott). |
lindbergh Charles Augustus Lindbergh (Detroit, Michigan 1902 - Kipahulu, Maui, Hawaii 1974), American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist; made the first solo flight across the Atlantic in May 1927 (Wikipedia). |
köhl - v. hünefeld |
zeppelin, eckener Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin (Konstanz 1838-Berlin 1917), German general and later aircraft manufacturer; founded the Zeppelin Airship company WikipediaHugo Eckener (Flensburg 1868-Friedrichshafen 1954), manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and also the commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin for most of its record-setting flights (Wikipedia). |
Panel with a longer inscription, ascribed to Leif Eriksson: "Ihr kennt nur Kenntnis, |
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