Rocket pioneers & scientists - Rocketry history (till WWII)

Early rocketry:

• Rocket history - Chinese fire-arrows
  
  
• India: Mysorean rockets
  
  
• UK: William Congreve rocket - Congreve rocket in France
• William Hale rocket
  
  
• Germany: Early history - Alfred Maul rocket - Opel-Rak - Verein für Raumschiffahrt
  Kummerdorf - Mirak rocket - Repulsor rocket - Winkler rocket - Magdeburg Project - Peenemunde
  
  Aggregate family: A-1 - A-2 - A-3 - A-5 - A-4b - A6 - A7/A8 - A9/A10 - A11
  A-4 SRBM - A-4b SRBM - A4B - A6 - A9/A10 - A11 (NIET OP INTERNET)
  C-2 Wasserfall - Rheinbote SRBM - Rheinbote - Rheintochter
  
  

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  A4/V2 rocket: A4/V2 - V2 - V2 (MW) - German experiments with V2 (launch log) (NIET OP INTERNET)
  Mobile operations - Mobile front - Deployment - Mittelwerk - DORA (NIET OP INTERNET)
  

  External links:

  • V2Rocket.com: Descriptions and pictures
  • Worldwar2facts.org Descriptions
  • Spaceline.org Descriptions

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• USA: Goddard - Rocket Experiments by Dr Robert H. Goddard 1926-1945.
  ARS-rockets
  
  
• Russian: Origins of Russian rocketry - Rocketry before WW II - GIRD
  
  
• France: Denisse rockets - Damblanc rockets - EA1941
  
  
• China: Project 714 - Projecct 863