(13) The Papers of Robert H. Goddard, Volume III: 1938-1945 [1938-1941: Rockets with Turbopumps]

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, correspondence, publications, speeches, patent outlines, school papers, press, reports and more.

This section covers 1938 to 1942. During this period, Goddard begins to develop turbine-driven pumps for liquid propellant rockets and conducts a series of flight tests with pump-driven rockets.

This section contains correspondence by, to, and about Robert H. Goddard from the following people and entities: William R. Enyart, Harry Guggenheim, George W. Lewis, Charles Lindbergh, Wallace A. Atwood, Major General Archibald H. Sunderland, N.L. Laschever, Colonel D.C. Pearson, Clarence N. Hickman, Colonel L.A. Codd, Charles Greeley Abbot, C.S. Logsdon, Major Jimmy Doolittle, George Pechstein, Theodor von Karman, Etienne Houvet, Lester P. Barlow, Louis T. E. Thompson, Franklin L. Fisher, Lieutenant Colonel J. A. Dorst, William G. Brombacher, John Oliver La Goree, McFall Kerbey, L.T.E. Thompson, General Henry H. Arnold, David I. Walsh, Captain C. A. Ross, Lieutenant Homer A. Boushey, Brigadier General George H. Brett, G. Edward Pendray, Dr. Vannevar Bush, Rear Admiral William R. Furlong, Commander Frederick William Pennoyer, Harold Tuson, Dr. Richard C. Tolman, Herbert B. Nichols, Major William H. Wenstrom, Major General Franklin Otis Carroll, Charles T. Hawley, George W. Lewis, Rear Admiral John Henry Towers, Lieutenant Charles Fink Fischer.

First Page

1203

Last Page

1424

Keywords

Robert H. Goddard, Esther C. Goddard, rocketry, rockets, turbopumps

Recommended Citation

Goddard, Robert H.; Goddard, Esther C.; and Pendray, G. Edward, "(13) The Papers of Robert H. Goddard, Volume III: 1938-1945 [1938-1941: Rockets with Turbopumps]" (1970). The Papers of Robert H. Goddard. 13.
https://commons.clarku.edu/papersgoddard/13

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