Schmidlap, Johann (16th century) |
Germany |
| German fireworks maker and perhaps the first, in 1591, to experiment with staging—a technique for lifting fireworks to higher altitudes. A large sky rocket (first stage) carried a smaller sky rocket (second stage). When the large rocket burned out, the smaller one continued to a higher altitude before showering the sky with glowing cinders. Although Schmidlap appears to have been the first to fly staged rockets, priority for the idea may go to Conrad Haas. |
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