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'''The Man Who Built the First Space Gun''' Edward Fitch Northrup published a book called ''Zero to Eighty'' in 1937. He was a respected professor of “electrothermic engineering” at Princeton. Among his 104 patents was an induction furnace capable of producing temperatures up to 3600 degrees F. In what must be one of the strangest sci-fi novels ever written, Northrup developed both ...

Chuck Yeager shattered the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, and the X-15 was perhaps the world's first spaceship. But these fabulous machines hardly sprang into being from nothing. They were the products of a long evolution of rocket-propelled aircraft, whose strangest episode may have come when the very first American rocketed into the skies in the 1930s. Rocket flight has its roots in the ...

Image:Goddard_rocket_plane_001.jpg border 200px In 1931, Robert Hutchings Goddard Robert Goddard filed a patent ( 1,809,271) for an aircraft that would be powered by rocket turbines. Although Goddard never had anything more in mind than a new way of propelling aircraft, Popular Science took the idea and ran with it, turning the invention into a moon rocket, among other things...something ...

The prehistory of spaceflight is filled with mad scientists. Some of their work led directly to the development of space exploration...others had a much weirder destiny. Such was the case with Robert Condit, who built a rocket in 1928 that he planned to fly from Baltimore to Venus. Condit's spaceship was a 24-foot-long bullet made of angle iron and sailcloth. It was constructed with the aid of ...

There have been some fairly imaginative suggestions for getting a spaceship off the earth, but only a few are so breathtaking as what Hugo Gernsback came up with in 1923. Looking over all the possible ways to launch a spacecraft to the moon, he dismissed such things as antigravity and nuclear power and settled on something that I, for one, would absolutely love to see, although from a distance. ...

Image:Kibalchich illustration from russian children's book.jpg border 200px Was Nikolai Kibalchich the first to suggest the idea of rocket-propelled space flight in 1881? Although there are earlier claimants to that accomplishment, most Russians would say “yes,” but whatever the answer, the story is tragic enough for a Russian novel and Kibalchich’s ideas certainly were ahead of their time. ...

'''Or, Is that a rocket in your garage or are you just happy to see me?''' Image:Hungerford_1.jpg‎ border 200px The 1920s were a heyday for rocketeers, who were attaching rockets to just about anything. Austrian space travel promoter Max Valier was pretty much the champ at this, creating everything from rocket-powered sleds and boats to rocket-propelled railroad cars and the first ...

A lot is made of how prophetic science fiction is supposed to be. And it certainly has seemed to hit the mark pretty often and pretty remarkably. But some of its most impressive hits depend on just what you mean by "prophecy." There are, it seems, four ways in which science fiction can appear prophetic. 1. The author just makes things futuristic by simply making them bigger, smaller, faster, ...

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