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Show The Fo rgotte n Father of A V 3 j IKIIYlrW ' : .. . by D ayi d that Few people realize Lisiarine slops 4-fima- bsftei is the of this amazing man. mtf "tUVi Vsi-.T- -' . . I . rT - x two obscure bicycle manufacturers named Orville and launched an airplane over the sandy hills of Kitty Hawk, N. C, and made history. Some 23 years later, on March 16, 1926, an obscure physics professor named Robert Goddard launched a rocket from a farm near Auburn, Mass. and was almost tota complained about the noise. Dr. Goddard is still generally ignored today, although he fathered the age of rockets and missiles just as surely as the Wright brothers pioneered the age of flight. Rockets, of course, are almost as old as gunpowder but, until Goddard, their use and their performance were haphazard things based on no scientific principle. A list of the. fundamental theories of rocketry, not only worked out on teacher is paper, but actually demonstrated, by this imposing. Many of the basic principles he was the first to suggest and later test are still in use in the most modern missile. While still in college, Goddard was experimenting with homemade rockets, put together from odds and ends bought in hardware stores. His "captive" tests chaining the rocket in place and measuring its power-la-ter led to the conclusion that stronger and more reliable fuels than gunpowder (namely liquid fuel) would have to be used. By 1914 he had been granted two basic patents, one covering the design of the rocket nozzle, by which the exhaust gases could be speeded up, thus producing maximum thrust, and the other covering the fueling system and combustion chamber. With them Goddard suggested the multi-staprinciple of placing one rocket on top of another, a principle used in all satellite-launchimissiles to date. Although Goddard was interested in rocket power primarily for peacetime use, notably research, he was not unaware of its weapon immary potential, un iov. iu, xxjio, ne aemonstratea a tuDe-iito Army experts at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. The war the weapon was forgotten until World War II. ended the next day,-ariwhen an Then, improved version was introduced and nicknamed the "bazooka," it was hailed as a bright new weapon. It wasn't; it was Goddard's old creation. In 1919 Goddard issued a pamphlet with the modest title, "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes," explaining his work and suggesting that rockets could be used to study the upper atmosphere. It was a sober document, but toward the end he made the mistake of further -- CAREFULLY SAFELY ,H .1 THS LIFE YOU SAVE YOUR OWN ! mild-manner- VMTIIEYDOilTKIiO WILL HURT THEM ed ge 41. r m f1 ng high-altitu- de Ke d Dr. THEY MUST HAVE Goddard stands beside one of his early models, a forerunner of SCHOOLS 9 Writ: Better School, t 40th . I9I8 "baiooka" 1903, On dec. 17,Wright TP SLOWLY YOU CAN HELPI v 1 - FIRST-RAT- E - , (above), and (right) poses with historic liquid-fuele- d roclcet before its 926 flight. Far right; Roswell launching tower. . "7 fey - cr 1 Goddard demonstrates protection BE i It story little-know- n against bad breath MAY 4 k. 0 ' i 1 ' & American scientist; here Tooth paste is for your teeth Listerine is for your breath. Germs in the mouth cause most bad breath, and you need an antiseptic to kill germs. Always reach for Listerine after you brush your teeth. No tooth paste is antiseptic, so no tooth paste killsgerms the way Listerine Antiseptic does . . . on contact, by millions. Listerine stops bad breath four times better than toothpaste nothing stops bad breath as "effectively as the Listerine way. your No. -'' :1 (.:'i4A launched in 1926 by an ihan foolh paslel ... ''it I the space age was badbreaih s M . Wa rre n St, N. Y.16.N.V. 20 Family Weekly, April 19, 19S9 all rockets. 69-pa- ge |