The Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at Caltech and the Creation of the Modern Rocket Motor (1936-1946)
Title | The Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at Caltech and the Creation of the Modern Rocket Motor (1936-1946) PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin S. Zibit |
Publisher | |
Pages | 543 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Aeronautics |
ISBN |
The Guggenheim Aeronautics Laboratory at Caltech and the creation of the modern rocket motor (1936-1946)
Title | The Guggenheim Aeronautics Laboratory at Caltech and the creation of the modern rocket motor (1936-1946) PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Seth Zibit |
Publisher | |
Pages | 543 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Aeronautics |
ISBN |
Strange Angel
Title | Strange Angel PDF eBook |
Author | George Pendle |
Publisher | HMH |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2006-02-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0547545363 |
Now a CBS All Access series: “A riveting tale of rocketry, the occult, and boom-and-bust 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles” (Booklist). The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSION. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform a derided sci-fi plotline into actuality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of the city’s occult scene. Fueled by childhood dreams of space flight, Parsons was a leader of the motley band of enthusiastic young men who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a cornerstone of the American space program. But Parsons’s wild imagination also led him into a world of incantations and orgiastic rituals—if he could make rocketry a reality, why not black magic? George Pendle re-creates the world of John Parsons in this dazzling portrait of prewar superstition, cold war paranoia, and futuristic possibility. Peopled with such formidable real-life figures as Howard Hughes, Aleister Crowley, L. Ron Hubbard, and Robert Heinlein, Strange Angel explores the unruly consequences of genius. The basis for a new miniseries created by Mark Heyman and produced by Ridley Scott, this biography “vividly tells the story of a mysterious and forgotten man who embodied the contradictions of his time . . . when science fiction crashed into science fact. . . . [It] would make a compelling work of fiction if it weren’t so astonishingly true” (Publishers Weekly).
Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology
Title | Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology PDF eBook |
Author | Fred E. C. Culick |
Publisher | San Francisco Press, Incorporated |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN |
The Journal of American History
Title | The Journal of American History PDF eBook |
Author | Organization of American Historians |
Publisher | |
Pages | 622 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
Geography, Technology and Instruments of Exploration
Title | Geography, Technology and Instruments of Exploration PDF eBook |
Author | Fraser MacDonald |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2016-04-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317128826 |
Focusing on aspects of the functioning of technology, and by looking at instruments and at instrumental performance, this book addresses the epistemological questions arising from examining the technological bases to geographical exploration and knowledge claims. Questions of geography and exploration and technology are addressed in historical and contemporary context and in different geographical locations and intellectual cultures. The collection brings together scholars in the history of geographical exploration, historians of science, historians of technology and, importantly, experts with curatorial responsibilities for, and museological expertise in, major instrument collections. Ranging in their focus from studies of astronomical practice to seismography, meteorological instruments and rockets, from radar to the hand-held barometer, the chapters of this book examine the ways in which instruments and questions of technology - too often overlooked hitherto - offer insight into the connections between geography and exploration.
The Development of Propulsion Technology for U.S. Space-Launch Vehicles, 1926-1991
Title | The Development of Propulsion Technology for U.S. Space-Launch Vehicles, 1926-1991 PDF eBook |
Author | J. D. Hunley |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2013-03-15 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1603449876 |
In this definitive study, J. D. Hunley traces the program’s development from Goddard’s early rockets (and the German V-2 missile) through the Titan IVA and the Space Shuttle, with a focus on space-launch vehicles. Since these rockets often evolved from early missiles, he pays considerable attention to missile technology, not as an end in itself, but as a contributor to launch-vehicle technology. Focusing especially on the engineering culture of the program, Hunley communicates this very human side of technological development by means of anecdotes, character sketches, and case studies of problems faced by rocket engineers. He shows how such a highly adaptive approach enabled the evolution of a hugely complicated technology that was impressive—but decidedly not rocket science. Unique in its single-volume coverage of the evolution of launch-vehicle technology from 1926 to 1991, this meticulously researched work will inform scholars and engineers interested in the history of technology and innovation, as well as those specializing in the history of space flight.