Rockets

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Rockets

• By Victor Rodriguez
• Principles of tech period 5th

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Table of contents
Table of contents
introduction
Historical account
Time line
principles
How rockets work
Scientific process
Nature of science
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A brief introduction

• History Rockets Development
• Scientists believed that the Chinese invented
  rockets and was the first to build a working
  rocket which was describe as "Arrows of flying
  fire" By 1300 the use of rockets has spread
  through out much of Asia and Europe.
• These first rockets burned a substance called
  black powder which consisted of charcoal salt
  paper and sulfur which used as a fireworks and as
  a weapon.

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Historical account

• During the early 1800"s. Colonel Congreve of the
  British army developed rocket that carried
  explosive, some of these rockets weighed as much
  as 60 pounds .
• Several other countries also developed military
  rockets. In 1800"s an English inventor William
  Hale improved accuracy in Military rockets by
  substituted three fins for the long wooden tail
  which was used to guide the rocket, these rocket
  was used in the Mexican war and the American
  Civil war (1861-1865).

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Time line
The success of Indian rocket barrages against the
British in 1792 and again in 1799 caught the
interest of an artillery expert, Colonel William
Congreve.
In 1898, a Russian schoolteacher, Konstantin
Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), proposed the idea of
space exploration by rocket. I
During the latter part of the 17th century, the
scientific foundations for modern rocketry were
laid by the great English scientist Sir Isaac
Newton (1642-1727).
The Congreve rockets were highly successful in
battle. Used by British ships to pound Fort
McHenry in the War of 1812, they inspired Francis
Scott Key to write "the rockets' red glare,"
words in his poem that later became The Star-
Spangled Banner.
A third great space pioneer, Hermann Oberth
(1894-1989) of Germany, published a book in 1923
about rocket travel into outer space.
During the end of the 18th century and early into
the 19th, rockets experienced a brief revival as
a weapon of war.
Somewhere around the year 400 B.C ., Archytas
mystified and amused the citizens of Tarentum by
flying a pigeon made of wood.
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principles

• By 1300 the use of rockets has spread through out
  much of Asia and Europe.
• A Russian teacher named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
  read about the use of rockets and space travel,
  he became serious and turned his attention to
  rocket theory and worked on a rocket design .

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How rockets work

• The rocket climbed 184 ft into air at a speed of
  60 miles per hour.
• American forces captured V-2 missiles and sent
  them to the United States for use in research.

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Scientific Process

• Early 20th century. In many of his theory he
  proposed space exploration by rocket, liquid
  propellant, space station and he was the first to
  present the idea of the multistage rocket.
• Hermann O Berth a German Scientist led a small
  group of German Engineers and Scientist by
  experimenting on rockets by theory and designing
  in 1923 he published a work in which he proved
  that flight beyond the atmosphere is possible.

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Nature of science

• He also proposed liquid propelled rockets,
  multistage rockets, space navigation and re-entry
  system .
• . From 1939 to 1945 he worked on Germans war
  rocket programs with Wemher Braun
• The German wanted to build a rocket which would
  carry a bomb from Europe to strike New York City.

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Problem solving

• Dr. Robert H. Goddard an American Pioneer of
  rockets his design and model eventually led to
  the German big rockets such as the V-2 which was
  used against the allied in World War II.
• After the war some scientist went to the Soviet
  Union other came to the USA to continue rocketry
  work.

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process

• In 1915 he tested solid fueled models and began
  working on perfecting rocket weapons, one of his
  design was the fore runner of the bazooka a tube
  launched missile, 18 inches long, it was tested
  in 1918.
• It was never used in the war because the war
  ended.

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Practical rocketry

• 1919 Dr Goddard a paper which stated that a
  rocket would have worked better in a total vacuum
  than in our atmosphere, he also suggest that a
  multi-stage rocket that can reach high-altitudes
  and even reach the escape velocity of the earth.

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Modern uses
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NASA launches
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Negative Aspects
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Positive Aspects

• Space flight offered new challenges and problems
  very different from aviation .

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Concluding thoughts
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Index
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Glossary
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Resources
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