[Ads-l] Antedating of "Rocket" (Modern Sense)

[Shapiro, Fred]

rocket (OED, n.5 I.2, 1914)

1913 Robert H. Goddard Outline of Article on "The Navigation of Interplanetary Space"​ in Papers of Robert H. Goddard​ I.121  The use of a plurality of rocket devices, to be operated in succession, each succeeding apparatus being lighter and smaller than the preceding one.

Fred Shapiro

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