Ignition!
An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
Recommended by Elon Musk, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #2 in Aerospace Engineering, Ranked #16 in Virus — see more rankings.
This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety. Acclaimed scientist and sci-fi author John Drury Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the relentless restraints of gravity. The resulting volume is as much a memoir as a work of... more
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- #36 in Chemistry
- #25 in Engineering
- #37 in Mathematician Biography
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