(11) The Papers of Robert H. Goddard, Volume II: 1925-1937 [1934-1937: Return to New Mexico; Pressure-Tank Rockets]

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 mid-1934 through 1937. During this time, Robert and Esther Goddard began their second stint in Roswell, New Mexico for Guggenheim funded rocket research (the first was 1930 to 1932). This one would last from 1934 to 1942. During this period Goddard also achieved the first flight of a rocket faster than the speed of sound and published "Liquid-propellant Rocket Development".

This section contains correspondence by, to, and about Robert H. Goddard from the following people and entities: James C. O’Neil, Albert C. Erickson, Wallace W. Atwood, Calvin H. Andrews, Al West, Waldemar Kaempffert, Colonel D.C. Pearson, Richmond W. Smith, David Smith, Charles T. Hawley, Franklin M. Reck, John W. Parsons, George H. Blakeslee, M.H. Collins, Harry Guggenheim, Arthur A. Collins, Herbert F. Taylor, Webster P. True, Albert Rice Leventhal, Charles Lindbergh, Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Charles Evans Hughes, Midshipman Robert C. Truax, John C. Merriam, Lester D. Gardner, Ernie Pyle, Archibald H. Sunderland, Robert A. Millikan, C. W. McNash, Joseph Nathan Kane, Thomas Sigismund Stribling, Frank Malina, Max Kronstein, Robertson Youngquist, Charles G. Philp, Lieutenant Colonel J.A . Dorst, Harry M. Davis, Edgar A. Fisher, M.D., William R. Enyart, Professor C.E. Pearce, Willy Ley, Albert G. Ingalls.

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

885

Last Page

1104

Keywords

Robert H. Goddard, Esther C. Goddard, rocketry, pressure-tank rockets

Recommended Citation

Goddard, Robert H.; Goddard, Esther C.; and Pendray, G. Edward, "(11) The Papers of Robert H. Goddard, Volume II: 1925-1937 [1934-1937: Return to New Mexico; Pressure-Tank Rockets]" (1970). The Papers of Robert H. Goddard. 11.
https://commons.clarku.edu/papersgoddard/11

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