History of Rockets

Hero Engine• Archytas – Wooden Pigeon • Hero 0f Alexandria - Aeolipile

Chinese Fire Arrows

• First Century A.D.

• 1232 – Kai-King Battle

13th to 15th Centuries

• Roger Bacon• Jean Froissart• Joanes de Fontana

Chinese Legend – Wan Hu • Rocket-powered

flying chair

Rocketry Becomes a Science• Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

• Newton’s Laws of Motion

Rocketry Becomes a Science • Colonel William Congreve

• Congreve Rockets – War of 1812

Rocketry Becomes a Science• Francis Scott Key (1779-1843)

• The Star-Spangled Banner

Pioneers of Modern Rocketry • Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-

1935)

Pioneers of Modern Rocketry• Dr. Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945)

• The Father of Modern Rocketry

Pioneers of Modern Rocketry• Hermann Oberth (1894-1989)

• The Rocket Into Planetary Space -1923

German Rocket Scientists and the V-2

• World War II

Pioneers of Modern Rocketry• Dr. Wernher von Braun (1912-

1977)