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American engineer and one of the founders of the American
Rocket Society who, in 1938, built the first rocket engine to use regenerative
cooling. Some preliminary work with this technique had been done in 1993 by
Harry W. Bull who used it to cool the nozzle area only. The first tests of Wyld’s
1-kg engine were carried out under the direction of the Rocket Society’s Experimental
Committee on December 10, 1938, with satisfactory results. In December 1941, Wyld
helped found Reaction Motors, Inc., American’s first commercial rocket company.
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