I work with a very skilled guy who builds rocket engines for very large “hobby” rocketry projects. It is kind of hard to call them hobby projects because they will often work for a year on a rocket that will reach 100,000 ft. He runs off to Nevada once or twice per year to join other groups of rocketeers to fire off their rockets together. I thought of him when I ran into this very, very interesting article titled In Search of the First Rocket Man. The title says it all. It talks about early rocket inventors in China, the US and Italy. It is crazy stuff, a great read and it really inspires the imagination. It probably goes a long way in explaining why the percentage of the people in the world who are engineers is so small–they keep killing themselves off.
Betty Blonde #474 – 05/27/2010
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