(08) The Papers of Robert H. Goddard, Volume II: 1925-1937 [1925-1930: Liquid-Propellant Rockets Fly]

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 1925 through the middle of 1930. During this time, Goddard achieved his greatest success on March 16, 1926, with the first ever flight of a liquid-propellant rocket. This period also saw a 1929 flight that attracted a great deal of public attention, as well as the beginning of an important friendship with Charles Lindbergh who would also become a significant benefactor.

This section contains correspondence by, to, and about Robert H. Goddard from the following people and entities: Charles Greeley Abbot, William Jackson Humphreys, Nikolai Rynin, Charles Doolittle Walcott, Alexander Wetmore, Otto Willi Gail, Arthur Arton Hamerschlag, Robert Lademann, William Francis Magie, German Consulate General, Mary Proctor, Wallace W. Atwood, Arthur Lee Willard, J. Kuhr Huddle, Willy Ley, Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr., Arthur Amos Noyes, George W. Gray, Howard Blakeslee, Robert E. Molt, George C. Neal, James W. Good, Harlow Shapley, Arthur W. Ewell, Science Service, E.E. Free, Hugh M. Dorsey, Frederick T. Birchall, C. Fayette Taylor, Henry du Pont, Charles A. Lindbergh, John C. Merriam, Major C.E. Hocker, Charles H. Thurber, David Lasser, Waldemar Kaempffert, T. O'Conor Sloane, Colonel Henry Breckinridge, Daniel Guggenheim, Karl T. Compton.

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

562

Last Page

748

Keywords

Robert H. Goddard, Esther C. Goddard, rockets, rocketry, liquid propellants, liquid-propellant rockets

Recommended Citation

Goddard, Robert H.; Goddard, Esther C.; and Pendray, G. Edward, "(08) The Papers of Robert H. Goddard, Volume II: 1925-1937 [1925-1930: Liquid-Propellant Rockets Fly]" (1970). The Papers of Robert H. Goddard. 7.
https://commons.clarku.edu/papersgoddard/7

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