(09) The Papers of Robert H. Goddard, Volume II: 1925-1937 [1930-1932: The First New Mexico Adventure]

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 mid 1930 to mid 1932 when Goddard received his first Guggenheim grant (this one from Daniel) which would bring Robert and Esther to Roswell, New Mexico for two years of rocket research. They would soon relocate to Roswell for a much longer stretch of time, 1934-1942, under grants from the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation. In April of 1932, Goddard achieved the first flight of a rocket with gyroscopic stabilization.

This section contains correspondence by, to, and about Robert H. Goddard from the following people and entities: Charles Greeley Abbot, John C. Merriam, Franz Oskar Leo Elder von Hoefft, Wallace W. Atwood, David Lasser, Ivy Lee, Carl L. Bausch, W.F. Clark, L.T.E. Thompson, George Crompton, Lawrence Mansur, Walter S. Adams, Ernest O. Lawrence, John A. Fleming, Nils Thure Ljungquist, Florence Schloss Guggenheim, Major Kenneth B. Harmon, Frederick G. Keyes, George K. Burgess, Willis Ford Insurance Agency, G. Edward Pendray, R.E Turpin, Robert A. Millikan, Charles Franklin Brooks, Russell B. Hastings, H. Gordon Garbedian, H.G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Percy M. Roope, E.G. Minton, Charles F. Brooks, Lieutenant Colonel W.A. Capron.

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

749

Last Page

834

Keywords

Robert H. Goddard, Esther C. Goddard, Charles Lindbergh, rockets, rocketry, Roswell

Recommended Citation

Goddard, Robert H.; Goddard, Esther C.; and Pendray, G. Edward, "(09) The Papers of Robert H. Goddard, Volume II: 1925-1937 [1930-1932: The First New Mexico Adventure]" (1970). The Papers of Robert H. Goddard. 9.
https://commons.clarku.edu/papersgoddard/9

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