information on early rockets?

Question

particulary military rockets before 1950 (or even pre-V2). I know the british, russians and germans had some, but that's all i know.

Answer 1

try this site:
http://www.leuband.de/peen2002/en/literatur.htm

Answer 2

Some people say that the first rockets have origins in the period AD 1200-1300 in Asia, where the first "propellant" (a mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal called black powder) was in use for about.

The first modern rocket was the Congreve rocket (named for William Congreve, a British officer who was instrumental in their development) of the early 1800s. Performance of these early rockets was poor by modern standards because the only available propellant was black powder, which is not ideal for propulsion. Military use of rockets declined from 1815 to 1936 because of the superior performance of guns.

Congreve's work can be seen at this link:

Answer 3

Rockets have been around for centuries. "The rockets' red glare" referred to Congreve rockets, which were used by the British in the bombardment of Ft. McHenry in the War of 1812. Rockets became less important after that as ground artillery improved, and didn't really become important again until WWII, when the bazooka anti-tank weapon became popular. The German V-2 rockets became a nuisance late in the war, but their lack of good aim rendered them largely ineffective.

Answer 4

In 1883 Constantin Edouardovitch Tsiolkovski grew to become into the 1st one to guidance using rocket engine for area flight, favourite the theory for liquid fuelled rocket engine and placed down the assumption of propergol as rocket gas. Goddard released the international's first liquid-fueled rocket on March sixteen, 1926. Louis Damblanc invented in 1936 the 1st multi staged rocket with separation on the top of combustion. Sergei Pavlovitch Korolev geared up gliders and planes propelled by utilizing rockets in the 30's Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun worked on rockets and grew to become into recruited by utilizing the Nazy military in 32 to construct the V2. Pre 40 grew to become right into a time of discovery, the 1st actual missile wasn't geared up till the conflict.

Answer 5

There are a lot of web pages on this issue, just look up the space race, and see where it leads you. Here are some sites:

You can also do a simple google search and just type in "The History of Rockets". It'll give you hundreds of pages and some of them are well described and have a lot of information.

Answer 6

Here is an article I came across this morning.

http://www.reformation.org/nuclear-tsunamis.html

I have no possible way to prove or dis-prove if it is true, but I did learn a little more about nuclear bomb history.

Answer 7

maybe you should look it up