The Goddard Rocket Researches: A Photographic Record [Individual Photographs]

 

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Photograph of Robert Goddard "loading the 1918 'bazooka' with 3" projectile; 1/8 wall brass tube strong enough. Mount Wilson Observatory., 1918" (Esther Goddard's annotation). While part of Robert Goddard's legend (as tirelessly shaped by both Robert and Esther) credits him as being responsible for the bazooka, it is important to note that the truth is more complex. The Goddard tube-launched rockets of 1918 (demonstrated to the U.S. Army Signal Corps and important to what would eventually become the bazooka), and the bazooka are two distinct pieces of equipment. The former would certainly prove instrumental in the development of the latter, but it was the scientist Clarence Hickman, Clark alum, former Goddard student and colleague, who worked on both. Hickman would guide the bazooka to completion for its use in World War II as head of the National Defense Research Committee.

'The Goddard Rocket Researches: A Photographic Record' is an annotated photo album covering Robert H. Goddard's work and experimentation with rocketry. It was assembled and curated by Esther Goddard sometime after her husband's passing in 1945. Additionally, almost all of the photographs were taken by Esther herself. This photograph was not taken by Esther as she and Robert did not meet until 1920.

Photographs were scanned at 400dpi.

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1918

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Robert Goddard, rocketry, bazooka, Clarence Hickman, World War I

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Robert Goddard, rocketry, bazooka, Clarence Hickman, World War I

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