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What did Robert falcon Scott use on his journeys and why?
Robert Falcon Scott used all the current technologies that his expedition donors gave him money to afford, or which were issued to him by the Royal Navy. You can read more about his preparation for his second expedition, below. This expedition's preparation was based on Scott's choices.
What did Robert goddard invent?
Robert Goddard BiographyBy: Alexander ConnollyMarch 10, 2012­­­­­­­­­­Just remember - when you think all is lost, the future remains"-Robert H. GoddardIntroduction:Robert Goddard was born on the fifth of October, in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1882. When he was young he became fascinated with the idea of going to the moon. He was determined to create an authentic rocket. His story is about seeking knowledge and the perseverance to achieve his goal.Although Robert Goddard didn't go to the moon, he was the first person to launch a liquid fueled rocket that traveled faster than the speed of sound. This achievement made him successful and known to this day.Biography:Robert Goddard was born on the fifth of October 1882 in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was the child of a bookkeeper, salesman, and machine-shop owner. Since his father was a skilled mechanic, as a boy Robert learned a lot about mechanics. He had a well-mannered childhood, and when he was young he felt the excitement of the Post Civil War era, which made him open to new possibilities. His brother died in infancy which made his parents more protective of him. He was also thin and frail as a boy and he was frequently ill. Because of his illness and his parents' protectiveness, he missed a lot school so he fell years behind in education.Even though he missed so much school, he was committed to education and loved to learn. He earned his bachelor's degree from Worcester Polytechnic in Massachusetts. , and studied mechanics and physics for 10 years. After being hired as a physics instructor at Worcester, Massachusetts he began graduate studies at nearby Clark University and received a doctorate from Clark in 1911. He then became a research instructor in physics at Princeton University in New Jersey. After Princeton, he returned to Clark University in 1934 as a professor of physics.In addition to all of his work at the university he still was dedicated to studying and making rockets.He started experimenting in his moms yard and fired his first rocket in 1926Section Two - Invention:When Goddard was young he became fascinated with the idea of going to the moon, and was curious about how everything worked and he was later inspired by H.G. Wells, when he read one of his books.Even when he was as young as 2 or 3 he was so interested in engines going back in forth in freight yards he could stay quiet for hours looking at them. And at 4 and 5 he did experiments with static electricity and batteries. He was so curious that one day he took the zinc rods from a battery jar, then shuffled on a sidewalk and jumped off a low fence hoping it would make him jump higher. He stopped because he sort of believed his mom after she told him, "someday it might work and then you'll go sailing off and not be able to come back." He also experimented with everything that had to do with kites and magnifying glasses. He continued experimenting all thru his teens. At the age of 17 he read the book The War of The Worlds he was fascinated by how the aliens got to earth in some sort of spaceship. He also read the book The First Men in the Moon, (by H.G. Wells) and they had gotten to the moon by using a secret gravity neutralizing material.Based on what he read, Robert thought, "if the human mind could conceive of such things, couldn't it figure out a way to do it to them?" This thought started his fascination with rockets.In his late years of High School he got a small basement laboratory and he started doing experiments with 'rockets' that were ignited by gunpowder which basically made them fireworks. Throughout college he started creating and inventing. By the time he graduated he knew he wanted to dedicate his time to solving the challenges of space travel. He kept many notebooks and experimented more and moreHe launched the world's first liquid fueled rocket on a farm in Auburn Massachusetts on the16th of March 1926 It went 41 feet in altitude at about 60 MPH for only about 2½ seconds. He then went to New Mexico and started firing series of rockets starting with the "A" series the first rocket: A-1 then A-2 and so on and so on. The "A" series exceed a mile in altitude then he fires the "L" series. The rocket: L13 exceeds 8,000 ft in altitude which was his best attempt flight in altitude. Then the "P" series, After P-36 jams in to the tower he stops doing the "attempt flights".One of his rockets went 7.2 miles in altitude, going faster than the speed of sound which had passed his goal, but he didn't stop there. He started developing the rockets for the US army which they used to devastate London during WWI but fortunately the war ended before he had enough time to perfect the outcome of his rockets. His highest run went 8,000 ft. in altitude. By 1948 (a few years after his death) the US had made a second stage rocket (which he invented) which went an altitude of 244 miles, this is significant because he had invented the second stage rocket, which they used and it went 244 miles.Q1. In what ways was his life remarkable?At first he didn't get credit for his inventions, in fact he was ridiculed by Newspapers, but at the end, he was more famous than Thomas Edison. He met many people and invented many things. Without him none of our planes or space vehicles would work today.Robert Goddard is best known for his liquid fueled rocket which is powered by LOX. which he has a total 240 patents on. In 1916 the U.S. government, began to support financially Goddard's work. Although he liked to work alone and was secretive, his inventions came to the attention Admiral Archibald H. Sunderland Chief of the Artillery Coast Military Corps (CS) asked him about the possibility of developing Rocket powered drones as anti-aircraft targets.He received more financial support for one project then any other project then any other scientist before WWII. He also enjoyed the support of influential people like Daniel and Harry Guggenheim and Charles A. Lindbergh.He actually devised the methods that ended up taking man to the moon.Q3. In what way was his life admirable?His life was also admirable in many ways; he persevered throughout his life to realize his dream of launching a rocket, he had stayed focused in his work through several illnesses. She also had a positive attitude, learning from every experiment and overcoming physical challenges throughout his life.He had never gave up and worked on perfecting his rocket for fifteen years. He consistently kept journals and notes and tested all different elements that would be necessary to succeed in rocket making and overcame challenges.At one point he became severely ill and was initially given two weeks to live, but he was so caught on in his work, that he had forgotten all about his illnesses and later recovered. And when his experiments 'didn't work' he didn't consider them failures but, valuable negative information. He constantly met challenges such as illnesses, or setbacks with his invention but he worked around them and moved forward. He was extremely intelligent and was perhaps more famous in his day then Einstein or Edison. He stopped at many colleges throughout the US and shared his knowledge with them.The two most important lessons in shaping the way Robert Goddard lived would be never give up and always want to learn more.Never Give Up- He worked on perfecting his prototype and constantly met challenges which he overcame for fifteen years, while making and firing rockets in NM. He had made many different inventions such as the: Multiple stage rocket, Liquid Fueled Rocket, First Hand-Held Bazooka which he offered to be used in world war one but was declined and even just LOX (Liquefied oxygen.) for rockets, which we also use in planes today.In 1914 he had been severely sick and was given innately two weeks to live and that didn't stop him, he worked harder and was so caught on in his work so much, he had completely forgot about his sickness, and fully recovered not too long after.AND: Always learn more- He would read anything about rockets, physics and mechanics. When he was young he had always been curious and he learned you could create static electricity by shuffling your feet, how engines worked and much more. Since he didn't get the classes he needed when he was young he then wanted to learn more in High School and throughout college. He became a physics instructor at Clark University and a professor in physics at there too. He had studied for ten years on physics and mechanics.Never give up, and follow your dreams are the two most important lessons I or any young person could learn from the way Robert Goddard lived. He had never gave up throughout his life such as in 1913 he got extremely ill and only had had and was told to have two weeks to live but that didn't stop him he didn't take "no" for an answer he worked more, studied more and worked full time hours inventing, and he was so interested in what he was doing and inventing that he forgot all about his sickness and he fully recovered. He then got his bachelor's degree in physics at Clark University.He had followed his dreams all the way throughout his life time and never gave up. One morning when he was a child, Robert went out back and climbed a cherry tree and day dreamt about going to Mars in a rocket. He wondered if he could make this possible, his parents say they remembered him shooting in, and running to his room without saying "good morning" they knew something was going on and they wondered. By his senior year at College he had begun experimenting with rockets in a small basement laboratory at the college. At that time the only rockets available were fired with powder (basically gunpowder) ignited by a flame, so they were basically Fireworks (FPK's were the only rockets at the time). He had experimented more and more and eventually the school ran out of FPK's and he got bored and started to study in physics and that's when he got his Bachelor's degree. Robert Goddard then started to make rockets and fire them. He then met Archibald H. Sunderland Chief of the Artillery Land Corps, and then started to develop rockets for the army. WWI had started around and He had started developing rockets for the US military someConclusion:Robert Goddard is very important and famous for developing and creating the liquid fueled rocket that helped served as a base for modern rocketry and aviation. He died on August 10, 1945, of throat cancer. Many streets, buildings, and awards were named in his honor, perhaps the most significant is the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center, was dedicated in his honor. On March16, 1961, the thirty-fifth anniversary of the first flight of Goddard's liquid-propelled rocket. Nine years later Clark University had named its library after Goddard. Since 1958, the National Space Club in Washington, D.C. has awarded a Goddard Memorial trophy for achievements in missiles, rocketry, and space flight. He had been the first person to successfully fire a rocket faster than the speed of sound.BIBLIOGRAPHY:● Baker, Sarah, Nagel, Rob and Saari, Peggy. "Robert H. Goddard." Detroit: 2005 Gale U.X.L®, P79-86.● Pearce, Lynn. Encyclopedia of American IndustriesVOL.2: Service & Non-Manufacturing Industries. 4th ed. Detroit: Gale, 2005 p1613-1621.● Space Sciences. Ed. Dasch, Pat. Vol. 3: Human in Space. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. P162-166.● ROCKET MAN ROBERT H. GODDARD. AND THE BIRTH OF THE SPACE AGE. Clary, David. Copyright © 2003 by DAVID A. CLARY. All rights reserved no part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of the Publisher. Printed in the United States of America. For information address: Hyperion 77 W. 66th Street, New York, New York 100236298-1st Edition. Robert H. Goddard and the birth of the space age / by David A. Clary. 1st ed. p, cm. (Includes bibliographical references in index) ISBN: 0-7868-6817-1. First edition."It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
Who gave Santa his job?
Santa gave himself a job. He wanted to help make children happy, and he found a way to do it.
What did Robert Falcon Scott wear?
He wore a thin woolen jumper thin trousers and hard boots (which gave them blisters) But Roald Amundsen (his competition) wore thick fur coats. scott did not wear fur beacause the men would get to hot hauling the sledges. But Amundsen and his men were driving dogs so they were able gto wear fur.
Why did early scientists think was the source of energy from the sun?
it made plants survive and it gave us sunburns, there for they thought it gave off energy and it DOES
What did Robert Peary do for living?
Robert Peary gave lectures to raise money for his expeditions .
How old is Alexa Goddard?
Alexa Goddard is 29 years old (born December 21, 1988). *an article in 2010 gave a birth year of 1990, and this is seen occasionally referenced
What is the book that Robert Pattinson gave to Kristen Stewart during the filming of twilight?
Robert gave Kristen "Doomed Love" by Virgil.
Has Michael Jackson gave money?
Yes He has He gave money to friends,family and poor people
Who gave the Eulogy for Robert Williams?
Rosa Parks
What did the vikings give to the Inuit?
They gave a bunch of different words in their language. Such as skirt, oaf and egg
How did vasko da Gama finance his voyage?
India gave him the money and gave him money for the ships.
Who gave the statement Money is what money does?
prof. walker
What was Michael Jordan's contribution?
Long shorts and everyone wanting to shoot all of the time.
Who gave Robert A. Essner his master's degree?
The University of Chicago
Who gave money to sir drake Francis for his trips?
me i gave it to him! LOL NO
What country gave Christopher Columbus the money to buy his ships for his journey to America?
The queen of Spain gave him the money to get to the Americas.
