Complete the texts using the words given.
A
On July 2nd 1900 1) crowds of people living in a German town 2) gathered to watch the very first Zeppelin airship go up in the air. Similar airships had been around for about 50 years but the Zeppelin was the first airship with a special design that allowed it to travel faster than those built before. The Zeppelin's 3) inventor was Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. In 1910, the airship Deutschland became the world's first commercial airship. By the start of World War I in 1914, German Zeppelins had travelled over 172,000 km and carried over 34,000 4) passengers and crew safely.
B
Christopher Cockerel’s idea was to build a vehicle that would travel just above the surface of land or water 1) floating on a cushion of air. His 2) invention started with two cans, one inside the other, and a hairdryer to blow air into them. The 3) experiment showed that air could produce enough pressure to 4) lift a vehicle off the ground.
In 1959, in the English Channel, Christopher Cockerel 5) presented the first hovercraft which has been used throughout the world ever since for commercial and military reasons.