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Rocket Man

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Informationen zum Autor David A. Clary , former chief historian of the U.S. Forest Service, is the author of numerous books and other publications on military and scientific history. He has served as consultant to several government agencies and teaches history at Eastern New Mexico University at Roswell, where he resides. Klappentext Goddard was the American father of rocketry and space flight, launching the world's first liquid-fuel rockets and the first powered vehicles to break the sound barrier. (Technology & Industrial Arts) Zusammenfassung More famous in his day than Einstein or Edison, the troubled, solitary genius Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) was the American father of rocketry and space flight, launching the world's first liquid-fuel rockets and the first powered vehicles to break the sound barrier. Supported by Charles Lindbergh and Harry Guggenheim, through fiery, often explosive, experiments at Roswell, New Mexico, he invented the methods that carried men to the moon. Today, no rocket or jet plane can fly without using his inventions. Yet he is the "forgotten man" of the space age. His own government ignored his rocketry until the Germans demonstrated its principles in the V-2 missiles of World War II. The American government usurped his 214 patents, while suppressing his contributions in the name of national security, until it was forced to pay one million dollars for patent infringement. Goddard became famous again, monuments and medals raining upon his memory. But his renewed fame soon faded, and Goddard's pivotal role in launching the Space Age has been largely forgotten.

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Authors David Clary, David A. Clary
Publisher External catalogues_US
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.09.2004
 
EAN 9780786887057
ISBN 978-0-7868-8705-7
Dimensions 150 mm x 230 mm x 23 mm
Series Harper Collins USA Print on Demand
Harper Collins USA Print on Demand
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Aviation and space engineering
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies

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