Download or read book Rockets and Revolution written by Michael G. Smith and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rockets and Revolution offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the twentieth century, examining how the Russian, European, and American pioneers competed against one another in the early years to acquire the fundamentals of rocket science, engineer simple rockets, and ultimately prepare the path for human spaceflight. Between 1903 and 1953, Russia matured in radical and dramatic ways as the tensions and expectations of the Russian revolution drew it both westward and spaceward. European and American industrial capacities became the models to imitate and to surpass. The burden was always on Soviet Russia to catch up—enough to achieve a number of remarkable “firsts” in these years, from the first national rocket society to the first comprehensive surveys of spaceflight. Russia rose to the challenges of its Western rivals time and again, transcending the arenas of science and technology and adapting rocket science to popular culture, science fiction, political ideology, and military programs. While that race seemed well on its way to achieving the goal of space travel and exploring life on other planets, during the second half of the twentieth century these scientific advances turned back on humankind with the development of the intercontinental ballistic missile and the coming of the Cold War.
Download or read book The Rocket Review Revolution written by Adam Robinson and published by NAL. This book was released on 2004-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to preparing for the new SAT exam offers customized suggestions on how to improve scores and a CD-ROM with animated demonstrations of major SAT techniques.
Download or read book The Rocket Review Revolution written by Adam Robinson and published by New Amer. Library. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers everything test-takers need to know, and offers the most advanced SAT techniques ever created. Readers will get a jump start on the new SAT-and their futures-with simulated SAT conditions, step-by-step demonstrations, software that predicts how actual SAT readers would grade students' essays, and suggests on how they can improve their score.
Download or read book The Sat Essay Formula written by Rodney Daut and published by Rodney Daut. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increase your SAT Essay score in only minutes a day with proven strategies that have already helped thousands of students. Many of the powerful techniques in this book are inspired by the research done at MIT on what high-scoring essays have in common. When you follow this model, you're SAT Essay scores will rise.
Download or read book Acing the New SAT 2005 written by and published by Learning Express (NY). This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains effective problem-solving strategies with complete lessons on how to master all question types found on the official SAT exam. Focuses on critical reading, sentence completion, vocabulary, algebra, multiple-choice, and essay writing.
Download or read book Launch Magazine s History of Rockets and Model Rockets written by Mark Mayfield and published by . This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launch Magazine heralds itself as devoted to spaceflight, hobby rocketry, and consumer aerospace. Here the magazine' s editor-in-chief tells the history of rockets and the models inspired by these out-of-this-world machines. More than 150 photos and illustrations, as well as expert text, cover such groundbreaking moments in space travel as the first manned spacecraft and the first moon walk; the many missions to Mars; and the journeys to Jupiter and Saturn to track their amazing weather patterns and mysterious moons. And back at home, we step outside into an American backyard as a father and son craft a model rocket... and send it soaring into the afternoon sky.
Download or read book The Rockets Red Glare written by Wernher Von Braun and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of rockets from the Middle Ages to modern times.
Download or read book Rockets and People written by Boris Evseevich Chertok and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book India s Forgotten Rocket Pioneer written by Gurbir Singh and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 1934 and 1944 in Calcutta, Stephen Smith worked alone and unsupported on developing rocket transport. In 1935, he was the first to demonstrate the successful transport by a rocket of livestock, food and medicine. This book charts the story of Stephen H Smith, described by a contemporary as "the greatest one-man campaign for rocketry". He dedicated his life working alone in northeast India to develop a new revolutionary means of transport using only rocket power. The development of rockets in India is commonly understood to have ended with Tipu Sultan in 1799 and started again in 1963 with what is now called the Indian Space Research Organisation. However, in the intervening period, rockets were built, and championed by one man, working alone in Calcutta. In 1925 he set up the Indian Air Mail Society and it is amongst the global philatelic community where his work is still known but is almost entirely forgotten from the popular imagination in India. On 14 February 1891, Stephen H Smith, the only son of a tea plantation manager originally from Norfolk, England was born in the Strawberry Hill region of Shillong. Between 1934 and 1944, he conducted over 200 rocket experiments to demonstrate the utility of a rocket as a means of transport. Small self-funded groups to develop rockets were established in USSR, USA, Britain, Australia and Germany. It was from these groups that Sergei Korolev and Wernher von Braun emerged and competed in the epic space race that resulted in Sputnik, Gagarin and Apollo 11. Stephen H Smith was their contemporary but worked alone and unsupported in India. Long after he had died, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame by the American Airmail Society in 1989. In 1992, a year after the centenary of his birth, the Indian government celebrated his achievements by issuing a stamp and a first-day cover dedicated to his work. Today his work is found in official NASA publications, the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society and in the National Air and Space Museum. This new study of his contacts with the King of Sikkim, with King George V, with a member of parliament in London and a 25 year-long correspondence with a Swiss philatelist reveal in his own words his struggle to attain recognition and support for his work. His reluctant attempt to work with the military authorities in India during World War II ended in frustration. His multiple attempts in 1949 to contact the Governor of Bengal and Prime Minister Nehru in the newly independent India failed to generate a response.
Download or read book Fundamentals of Rocket Propulsion written by DP Mishra and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book follows a unified approach to present the basic principles of rocket propulsion in concise and lucid form. This textbook comprises of ten chapters ranging from brief introduction and elements of rocket propulsion, aerothermodynamics to solid, liquid and hybrid propellant rocket engines with chapter on electrical propulsion. Worked out examples are also provided at the end of chapter for understanding uncertainty analysis. This book is designed and developed as an introductory text on the fundamental aspects of rocket propulsion for both undergraduate and graduate students. It is also aimed towards practicing engineers in the field of space engineering. This comprehensive guide also provides adequate problems for audience to understand intricate aspects of rocket propulsion enabling them to design and develop rocket engines for peaceful purposes.
Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1ST GOLDEN AGE ROCKETRY written by Frank H. Winter and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1990-06-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive book on the history of gunpowder rockets. As complex and varied as modern rockets are, they all have a common ancestor--the modest gunpowder rocket--which saw its peak development in the last century. In the early 1880s, Englishman William Congreve changed the face of rocketry by initiating the modern process of research and development. William Hale, Congreve's compatriot, introduced major improvements in rocketry using the advances of the Industrial Revolution in steam power and metallurgy. Frank Winter discusses in detail the international impact of Congreve and Hale rockets for seven major and nine minor European countries, the Americas, India, China, and the Middle East. He describes the applications of the gunpowder rocket to areas as varied as scientific inquiry, whaling, torpedoes, and flying machines. This definitive book assesses the achievements of Congreve and Hale in light of other forms of artillery of the day. It will prove to be a valuable contribution to the history of technology and military history. -- Dust jacket.
Download or read book Retro Rockets written by Peter Alway and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is the aim of this book to bring the rockets themselves to the modeling public. The stories of the rocketeers of the 1930's are told to give the rockets a historical context ... I have made an effort to provide drawings of every liquid-propelled vertical-ascent rocket flown before World War II ... A few notable solid-fueled rockets are [also] included"--Introd.
Download or read book The Rocket written by David Baker and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Revolution to Canon written by Geoffrey Galt Harpham and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revolution Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What's the gang been listening to? What are their hopes for the future? More importnantly, how's Jasper?" -- front cover.
Download or read book The Common Cause Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
