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History of Rockets
Hero Engine• Archytas – Wooden Pigeon • Hero 0f Alexandria - Aeolipile
Chinese Fire Arrows
• First Century A.D.
• 1232 – Kai-King Battle
13th to 15th Centuries
• Roger Bacon• Jean Froissart• Joanes de Fontana
Chinese Legend – Wan Hu • Rocket-powered
flying chair
Rocketry Becomes a Science• Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
• Newton’s Laws of Motion
Rocketry Becomes a Science • Colonel William Congreve
• Congreve Rockets – War of 1812
Rocketry Becomes a Science• Francis Scott Key (1779-1843)
• The Star-Spangled Banner
Pioneers of Modern Rocketry • Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-
1935)
Pioneers of Modern Rocketry• Dr. Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945)
• The Father of Modern Rocketry
Pioneers of Modern Rocketry• Hermann Oberth (1894-1989)
• The Rocket Into Planetary Space -1923
German Rocket Scientists and the V-2
• World War II
Pioneers of Modern Rocketry• Dr. Wernher von Braun (1912-
1977)
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