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HISTORY OF ROCKETRY
Some people involved in rocket development (chronological order)
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• Hero of Alexandria (1st century AD)
• Albertus Magnus (1193–1280)
• Bacon, Roger (c.1214–c.1292)
• Muratori (14th century)
• Froissart, Jean (c.1337–1410)
• Fontana, Giovanni da (1395–1455)
• Biringuccio, Vannoccio (1480–1537)
• Haas, Conrad (c.1509–1579)
• Schmidlap, Johan (16th century)
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1618–1655)
• Tipu Sultan (c.1750–1799)
• Ruggieri, Claude (fl. early 19th century)
• Congreve, William (1772–1828)
• De Laval, Gustav (1845–1913)
• Kibalchich, Nikolai (1854–1881)
• Ganswindt, Hermann (1856–1934)
• Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin (1857–1935)
• Maul, Alfred (1864–1941)
• Hohmann, Walter (1880–1945)
• von Pirquet, Guido (1880–1966)
• Esnault-Pelterie, Robert (1881–1957)
• Goddard, Robert (1882–1945)
• von Hoefft, Franz (1882–1954)
• Le Prieur, Yves Paul Gaston (1885–1963)
• Paulet, Pedro E. (1874–1945)
• Tsander, Fridrikh (1887–1933)
• Winkler, Johannes (1887–1947)
• Damblanc, Louis (1889–1969)
• Tiling, Reinhold (1890–1933)
• Valier, Max (1893–1930)
• Oberth, Hermann (1894–1989)
• Schmiedl, Friedrich (1902–1994)
• Sänger, Eugen (1905–1964)
• Tsien, Hsue-Shen (1911–)
• von Braun, Wernher (1912–1977)
• Wyld, James (1913-1953)
Rocket technology and places
• "A" series of German rockets
• Aberdeen Proving Ground
• aeolipile
• black powder
• Chinese fire-arrows
• guided missiles, postwar development
• Kummersdorf
• Magdeburg Project
• Mirak (Minimum Rakete)
• NACA
• OKB-1
• OKB-52
• OKB-586
• Opel-RAK
• Paperclip, Operation
• Peenemünde
• "V" weapons
• Verein für Raumschiffahrt
Related categories
• ROCKETS, MISSILES, AND LAUNCH VEHICLES• LAUNCH SITES
• ROCKETRY, TERMINOLOGY
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