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- Book Title
- Ignition! : an Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- Publication Name
- Ignition!
- Title
- Ignition!
- Subtitle
- An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- Contributor
- Isaac Asimov (Foreword by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0813595835
- EAN
- 9780813595832
- ISBN
- 9780813595832
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Science
- Topic
- History, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Science & Technology
- Release Date
- 23/05/2018
- Release Year
- 2018
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 7.9in
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 8 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Number of Pages
- 302 Pages
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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. A classic work in the history of science, and described as ?a good book on rocket stuff?that?s a really fun one? by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades.
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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10
0813595835
ISBN-13
9780813595832
eBay Product ID (ePID)
243014229
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ignition! : an Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Science & Technology
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Science
Number of Pages
302 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tl785
Grade from
Tenth Grade
Reviews
This insider's account of the early years of rocketry captures the excitement of researching and developing technologies that lie outside the realm of computer science. While we're accustomed to think of technological progress in terms of Moore's law, in a few short years these engineers went from launching metal tubes small enough to hold in your hand to propelling a two ton metal capsule containing three humans all the way to the moon., Ignition! is a history of liquid rocket propellants, but it's also a history of cold war and the space race, told from a particular point of view....That humor helps the accessibility, and as long as you remember some high school chemistry you shouldn't have a problem with the science either., Ignition! is a hard-to-get-your-hands-on account of early rocket science...Clark was an American chemist active in the development of rocket fuels back in the 1960s and 1970s, and the book is both an account of the growth of the field and an explainer of how the science works., Ignition! is a hard-to-get-your-hands-on account of early rocket science ... Clark was an American chemist active in the development of rocket fuels back in the 1960s and 1970s, and the book is both an account of the growth of the field and an explainer of how the science works., Read this book. You'll find plenty about John and all the other sky-high crackpots who were in the field with him and you may even get (as I did) a glimpse of the heroic excitement that seemed to make it reasonable to cuddle with death every waking moment--to say nothing of learning a heck of a lot about the way in which the business of science is really conducted., Ignition! , originally written in 1972, is back in print after a long hiatus. A classic book, it tells a rollicking story of an era when space was the frontier. An informative history, it reads like an adventure story.
Table of Content
Contents In Re John D. Clark - foreword by Issac Asimov Preface 1 How It Started 2 Peenemunde and JPL 3 The Hunting of the Hypergol . . . 4 . . . and Its Mate 5 Peroxide - Always a Bridesmaid 6 Halogens and Politics and Deep Space 7 Performance 8 Lox and Flox and Cryogenics in General 9 What Ivan Was Doing 10 "Exotics" 11 The Hopeful Monoprops 12 High Density and the Higher Foolishness 13 What Happens Next Glossary Index
Copyright Date
1972
Lccn
2017-033845
Dewey Decimal
629.47522
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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