Konstantin I. Konstantinov

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In 1849 K.I. Konstantinov was appointed director of the St. Petersburg rocketry establishment, and in the following year he was made head of the St. Petersburg Rocket-Manufacturing Plant. Between 1859 and 1861 he delivered a course of lectures on power-propelled combat rockets for artillery officers. In 1867 he was appointed head of the Nikolaev Rocket-Manufacturing plant. Konstantinov formulated the basic principles of military rocketry. From 1847 he concentrated on improving and building combat missiles and made a thorough study of their ballistic properties. Some of the models he developed were the most advanced at the time, with a flying range of four to five kilometers. Konstantinov maintained that "at any moment during the burning of a propellant composition the momentum imparted to the rocket is equal to that of the jet of gas."

Konstantinov's numerous articles appeared in the Artillery magazine (1845-1867) and the Naval Collection (1854-1866) He was the author of a book entitled Combat Missiles (1857) and the lectures he delivered at the Mikhailov Artillery Academy were published under the title About Combat Missiles (1864). Konstantinov also designed a number of artillery instruments, including an electrical ballistic device for measuring artillery shell velocity, an instrument to determine the altitude of flying signal flares, and optical range-finder and a ballistic pendulum. (Source: V.P. Glushko)



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