(05) The Papers of Robert H. Goddard, Volume I: 1898-1924 [1915-1920: Experimentation with Solid 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 1915 through 1920. During this time, he became an Assistant Professor in Physics at Clark University, demonstrated that reaction takes place in a vacuum, hence a rocket could function in airless space, received his first Smithsonian grant for rocket work, conducted research for the U.S. Signal Corps and Army Ordinance, demonstrated solid-propellant military rockets, published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes", and began his twenty-plus year tenure as Professor of Physics at Clark University.

This section contains the following published articles by Goddard (there are also unpublished works on subjects such as atomic disintegration):
"Approximate Solution of a General Case of Rocket Action", Physical Review (1919)
"A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes", Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (1919)
"On High-altitude Research", Science (1920)
"The Rocket Method", Journal of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1920)
"The Possibilities of the Rocket in Weather Forecasting", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1920)

This section contains correspondence by, to, and about Robert H. Goddard from the following people and entities: William T. Foster, Edmund C. Sanford, Edward Charles Pickering, Charles Greeley Abbot, Charles Doolittle Walcott, Edgar Buckingham, Hudson Maxim, Richard Rathbun, George I. Rockwood, Samuel Wesley Stratton, Rear Admiral Ralph Earle, Major General George O. Squier, Colonel Edward Marsh Shinkle, Robert Simpson Woodard, Nahum D. Goddard, George E. Hale, Hugh M. Dorsey, General Clark C. Williams, Hudson Maxim, General George W. Burr, Walter S. Adams, Major W.A. Borden, Clarence N. Hickman, Lieutenant Colonel Herbert O’Leary, Charles F. Marvin, Gordon S. Fulcher, Bronx Exposition Inc, A. Russell Bond (Scientific American Monthly), Karl Taylor Compton, Henry N. Crowther, Rear Admiral Ralph Earle, Robert Esnault-Peleterie, Lieutenant Colonel Amos A. Fries, Macmillian & Co., Ltd., Lieutenant Commander Olaf M. Hustveldt, William de C. Ravenel, F.P. Fergusson.

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

155

Last Page

456

Keywords

Robert H. Goddard, Esther C. Goddard, rockets, rocketry, solid-propellant rockets

Recommended Citation

Goddard, Robert H.; Goddard, Esther C.; and Pendray, G. Edward, "(05) The Papers of Robert H. Goddard, Volume I: 1898-1924 [1915-1920: Experimentation with Solid Propellants]" (1970). The Papers of Robert H. Goddard. 2.
https://commons.clarku.edu/papersgoddard/2

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