Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics) - Softcover

Clark, John Drury; Asimov, Isaac

 
9780813595832: Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0813595835 ISBN 13: 9780813595832
Verlag: MNG University Presses, 2018

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A classic work in the history of science. Readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades.  


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 history, sharing a behind-the-scenes view of an enterprise which eventually took men to the moon, missiles to the planets, and satellites to outer space.
 

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JOHN DRURY CLARK (1907 - 1988) was an American rocket fuel developer, chemist, and science fiction writer. In addition to his work as a scientist, he was instrumental in the broad revival of interest in Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories and an influence on the writing of Isaac Asimov, L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt, and other sci-fi authors.

ISAAC ASIMOV (1920 - 1992) was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. A prolific writer, he published more than 500 books, most notably the science fiction novels I, Robot and Foundation, and the popular science works, Guide to Science and Understanding Physics.

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Verlag
MNG University Presses
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813595835
ISBN 13 
9780813595832
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
195
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