The Pedro Paulet's liquid propellant rocket engine invention:first step in the space rocketry
- Paper number
IAC-13,E4,1,6,x19943
- Author
Mr. Luis Rojas, Peru
- Coauthor
Mr. Álvaro Mejía, Peru
- Year
2013
- Abstract
This document describes the first liquid propellant rocket engine that operated in the Earth, invented by Peruvian chemical engineer Pedro Paulet (1874-1945) by the end of XIXth Century. It describes and analyzes the process by which Pedro Paulet merged the knowledge of the science and technology of explosives with the science and technology of the explosion motors in order to invent the first liquid propellant rocket engine of the History. It is demonstrated that the conceptual way followed by Pedro Paulet for the invention of the liquid propellants rocket engine was original and completely different from the conceptual way followed by the astronautics’ fathers, Tsiolkovski and Oberth, who proposed the use of liquid propellant rockets for the space exploration, and Robert Goddard, the creator of the first liquid propellant rocket that flew.
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