The History of Rockets?

Question

Who was the man who invented the first successfuly flown rocket? What was his name and what was the date? I need this for a school project. It would be really helpful if you could help me. Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Here is the exact link you need to go to. I would get the info for you but it is worth the reading...plus it is your project. Check out in the reading that rockets origins were from fireworks by the Chinese as well...not necessarily what we think of what a modern rocket is.

Good luck

Answer 2

This is a tricky one to answer, depending on what you mean exactly by a rocket.

1. Gunpowder in rockets for miltary purposes was being used by the Chinese certainly by 1045 AD and even possible as early as the 3rd century BCE.

2. Rockets arrived in Europe around 1241 AD when they were used by the Mongols against the Magyars at Sejo.

3. In the early 1800s Sir William Congreve design military rockets for the British which were used against Napoleon.

4. In the 1930s Werner von Braun developed liquid fuelled rockets called the A4, which gained notoriety in WW2 as the V2 rocket.

5. Robert Goddard of the USA was the first to have a successful flight of a liquid-fuelled rocket when his flew 46 metres on March 16th, 1926 in Auburn, Massachussetts

Answer 3

I beleive the Chinese first invented the basic rocket, but those were fireowrks type rockets. Similar rockets were used in the American Civil War. Werner von Braun in Germany and Robert Goddard in the US were earlypioneers of rocket technology. Read abou tthem on the web and see if one of them is credited with the first rocket. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Google Robert Goddard the father of modern rockets

Answer 5

William Congreve was a lawyer, politician and scientist who invented the rocket.

Congreve was born on May 20th 1772 in Kent, the son of General William Congreve, comptroller of the Royal Laboratory at Woolwich. He was educated at Singlewell School and Trinity College, Cambridge. His early career was devoted to the study of law, writing political journals and assisting his father at the Royal Laboratory.

In 1804, he learned of a primitive gunpowder device that was used against British troops, by the Indian warlord Hyder Ali, and was inspired to construct a superior appliance for the British military. In 1805, he was able to demonstrate to the Prime Minister, Pitt the Younger, a rocket, 40 inches long, with a stabilising stick, 16 feet long, and a range of 6,000 feet. Congreve’s rockets were used effectively by the Royal Navy in bombardments of Boulogne, Copenhagen and Danzig, during the Napoleonic Wars and by the British army at the battle of Leipzig of 1813. They were also used in the British attack on Fort McHenry, Baltimore during the War of 1812. This attack on the Americans, moved Francis Scott Key, in writing The Star Spangled Banner, to include the line ‘the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air’.

Congreve’s was honoured by the Prince Regent, with the rank of Lieutenant General in the Hanoverian army. In 1814, he succeeded to his father’s position at the Royal Laboratory where he continued research on his rockets, making considerable advances in improving range and accuracy. After hostilities ceased in 1815, Congreve attempted further inventions, some more successful than others. He suggested armour plating for warships but could not find a successful method of applying the plates to the vessel’s sides. He invented a gun-recoil mounting, a time fuse, a colour printing process and forgery proof banknote paper. He attempted to build a perpetual motion machine, which worked, or rather failed to work, by using capillary action to raise water above its own level and produce a continual overflow.

Congreve served as Member of Parliament, first for Gatton and then for Plymouth. At the Coronation of George IV, he organised a gigantic fireworks display, although not including his own rockets. In 1825, he became involved in an attempt to form a gas company, and when on a commercial visit to Toulouse, in 1828, attempting to obtain French investment funds, he died of a stroke, aged fifty-five.

Answer 6

go to google....it helps...