Rockets

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Sulfur, Sputnik and scramjets

Peter Macinnis

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ALLEN & UNWIN
01 July 2003

History of science; Popular science

Our story starts around 700 BC when the Chinese used a form of gunpowder to fumigate their houses. The first real rockets were gunpowder filled sections of bamboo thrown under horses to scare them; the next development was to tie these to arrows.

The Mongols took rockets from China to Europe where only some, including Admiral Nelson and the Crown Prince of Sweden, were impressed. The Royal Navy used them in all sorts of odd actions against restless natives in Tierra Del Fuego, Australia and New Zealand and the Russian and Austrian empires adopted rockets as alternatives to artillery in boggy and mountainous territory. By 1870 their heyday appeared over.

But since the Roman Empire people had dreamed of travelling to the moon and by 1900 some were starting to realise that rockets were the only way to get there. Robert Goddard in the USA and other space enthusiasts all across Europe in the first half of the twentieth century started developing the rockets that are now used for space exploration, by the military, and for commercial purposes such as setting up satellite communications that have revolutionized our modern world.

Our story ends with a look at the future of rockets and the third generation spacecraft, the scramjet.

The author fills this book with a cast of unusual people and events to tell the story of the history of rocketry including pissoirs in Paris, stuntmen in New York, kangaroos in outback Australia and a socialist nudist New Zealand physicist.

By: Peter Macinnis
Imprint: ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 364g
ISBN: 9781865087948
ISBN 10: 1865087947
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 July 2003
Recommended Age: From
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Active

Prologue 1 Sputnik and the 50-year rule 2 The first rockets 3 The alchemists 4 Congreve s ricochet rockets 5 The rockets red glare 6 After Waterloo 7 The dream of space 8 Civil rockets 9 The universal touring gene 10 A question of fuels 11 Chasing Goddard 12 Rockets in World War II 13 The Space Age 14 The alternatives Postscript Acknowledgements References Index

Peter Macinnis has been involved in bringing science to the general public for many years, in print, on line and on air on the ABC. Formerly a science teacher, he has written a number of school textbooks and science readers. After leaving teaching he worked at the Powerhouse Museum and the Australian Museum and is now a full-time writer with Webster Publishing, an Australian multimedia company.

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