(04) The Papers of Robert H. Goddard, Volume I: 1898-1924 [1898-1914: Speculation and Preparation]

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 Robert Goddard's life from age sixteen through thirty-two. It contains diary entries, correspondence, school themes, entries from his green notebooks (used for calculations), a graduation oration, published articles,

This section contains the following articles:
"The Use of the Gyroscope in the Balancing and Steering of Airplanes", Scientific American Supplement (1907)
"On Some Anomalous Electrical Conductors", Journal of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1907)
"The Limit of Rapid Transit", Scientific American (1909)
An unpublished early version of the landmark 1919 paper "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes" called "The Problem of Raising a Body to a Great Altitude Above the Surface of the Earth" (1914)

This section contains correspondence by, to, and about Robert H. Goddard from the following people and entities: Munn & Co., Edward Charles Pickering, Edward F. Bigelow (St. Nicholas Magazine), Smithsonian Institution, Frederick Webb Hodge, Popular Science News, Calvin De Witt, James McKeen Cattell, Scientific American, William W. Payne (Popular Astronomy), George B. Pegram, William Francis Magie, Boston Sunday American, Edmund C. Sanford, Josephus Daniels, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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

49

Last Page

154

Keywords

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

Recommended Citation

Goddard, Robert H.; Goddard, Esther C.; and Pendray, G. Edward, "(04) The Papers of Robert H. Goddard, Volume I: 1898-1924 [1898-1914: Speculation and Preparation]" (1970). The Papers of Robert H. Goddard. 3.
https://commons.clarku.edu/papersgoddard/3

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