(14) The Papers of Robert H. Goddard, Volume III: 1938-1945 [1941-1945: JATO and Variable Thrust for the Military]

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 the final years of Robert Goddard's life, from 1941 to 1945. During this time, he became the Director of Research for the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, at Annapolis, Maryland, developing variable-thrust rocket motor later used on Bell X-2 rocket plane. He also became Director of the American Rocket Society and took on the role of Consulting Engineer for Curtiss-Wright Corporation.

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, Lieutenant Charles Fink Fischer, Captain Homer A. Boushey, Frederick G. Keyes, McFall Kerbey, Rear Admiral Ray Spear, Captain Dewitt Clinton Ramsey, Commander L.C. Stevens, Irvin Stewart, J.A. Folse, Major William H. Wenstrom, Captain A.C. Miles, Curtis Hill, M. B. Bleecker, Walter Brown Woodson, Colonel P. H. Dane, C.M. Fisher, Lieutenant J. S. Warfel, J.J. Murphy, Colonel Paul H. Kemmer, Charles M. Allen, Colonel Henry Breckinridge, H. B. Mallett, Percy M. Roope, Herbert Taylor, Bromley Seeley, Robert L. Earle, Edmund Wilson, Vernon A. McLaskey, Theodore Adams, John N. Wheeler, Dr. William H. Cole, L.T.E. Thompson, G. Edward Pendray, Robert L. Earle, Captain H.T. Kelly, William B. Allen, Gilbert Grosvenor, Colonel G. W. Trichel, Henry C. Parker, Warren S. Orton, A. W. Robinson, J.W. Long, Judge Carl E. Wahlstrom, G. W. Brady.

First Page

1425

Last Page

1612

Keywords

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

Recommended Citation

Goddard, Robert H.; Goddard, Esther C.; and Pendray, G. Edward, "(14) The Papers of Robert H. Goddard, Volume III: 1938-1945 [1941-1945: JATO and Variable Thrust for the Military]" (1970). The Papers of Robert H. Goddard. 14.
https://commons.clarku.edu/papersgoddard/14

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