Rockets

• Main Author: Goddard, Robert Hutchings, 1882-1945 (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2002.
• Series: Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering.
• Subjects: Rocketry.; Rockets (Aeronautics); Upper atmosphere > Rocket observations.; Liquid propellant rockets.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9780486174341; 0486174344; 0486425371; 9780486425375
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Rockets, in the primitive form of fireworks, have existed since the Chinese invented them around the thirteenth century. But it was the work of American Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945) and his development of liquid-fueled rockets that first produced a controlled rocket flight. Fascinated by roc...