(06) The Papers of Robert H. Goddard, Volume I: 1898-1924 [1921-1924: Beginnings of Experimentation with Liquid Propellants]

Authors

Robert H. Goddard
Esther C. Goddard
G. Edward Pendray

Document Type

Book Chapter

Files

Date

1970

Description

Meticulously curated and edited by Esther C. Goddard and G. Edward Pendray, The Papers of Robert H. Goddard is a 1700-page 3 volume set published in 1970. The set presents a careful and exhaustive chronological presentation of Robert Goddard’s life through diary snippets, notebook entries, correspondence, publications, speeches, patent outlines, school papers, press, reports and more.

This section covers Robert Goddard's life from 1921 through 1924. During this time, Goddard began his experimentation with liquid propellants for rockets, became a part-time consultant on solid-propellant rocket weapons for the U.S government, began a twenty-year tenure as Director of Physical Laboratories at Clark University, and married Esther Goddard (formerly Kisk).

This section contains the following published articles by Goddard:
"That Moon-rocket Proposition - Refutation of Some Popular Fallacies", Scientific American (1921)
"The High-altitude Rocket", Monthly Weather Review (1924)

This section contains correspondence by, to, and about Robert H. Goddard from the following people and entities: Lieutenant Commander Olaf M. Hustveldt, Charles Doolittle Walcott, Charles Greeley Abbot, Vatican Observatory, the Trustees of Clark University, Wallace W. Atwood, Navy Bureau of Ordnance, Wallace W. Atwood, F.W. Baldwin, Hermann Oberth, Lieutenant Commander Theodore Stark Wilkinson, C.S. Thompson, Major A. Gibson, William de C. Ravenel, Rear Admiral Charles B. McVay, Jr., A.A. Hamerschlag, Burton E. Livingston, Watson Davis, E.E. Free (Popular Radio), Axel Corlin, Nature, Albert Adams Merrill, David White, French Embassy.

Disclaimer: The images in these scans have been rendered somewhat distorted after the fact. We apologize for this error. Thankfully, most of the photographs used in these papers are part of the The Goddard Rocket Researches: A Photographic Record and can be seen individually in high-quality scans.

First Page

456

Last Page

559

Keywords

Robert H. Goddard, Esther C. Goddard, rockets, rocketry, liquid propellants, liquid-propellant rockets

Recommended Citation

Goddard, Robert H.; Goddard, Esther C.; and Pendray, G. Edward, "(06) The Papers of Robert H. Goddard, Volume I: 1898-1924 [1921-1924: Beginnings of Experimentation with Liquid Propellants]" (1970). The Papers of Robert H. Goddard. 1.
https://commons.clarku.edu/papersgoddard/1

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