Austrian military engineers Conrad Haas It was before his time, considering he was working on rockets for space in the mid-16th century. In fact, it’s about 400 years away. Needless to say, he never actually fired anything into the atmosphere above. But you must honor the considerable advances he has documented in his paper, as long as he uses the idea. As Kaushik Patowary Note in Funny planetpage 450 is “It is packed with drawings and technical data on detailed descriptions of artillery, ballistics and multi-stage rockets. ”
“Born in 1509 in Dawnbach, now part of Vienna, and was born from Bavaria to a German family,” said Haas, in his early adulthood, to Transylvania, part of the Austrian Empire. “In 1551, Haas was invited to Hermanstadt (now Sibiu, Romania) by Stephen Bassory, the magnificent Prince of Transylvania, where he became commander of artillery and weapons engineers.”
It was the capabilities of this expert that he began studying rockets, and he “has a cylindrical thrust chamber filled with powder propellant, a cone-shaped hole for gradually increasing the combustion area, which led him to discover the clear intellectual ancestor concept that a clear intellectual ancestor of multi-stage design is “still used in modern rockets.”
Haas is the earliest scientific study of rockets known to have been carried out in Europe. And it was forgotten until quite recently. In 1961, his manuscript found in the Sibiu public archives motivated Romania to assert Haas as the first rocket scientist. Although anachronistic, the designation emphasizes the hyperopia of Haas’s worldview. So are the personal words he included in his chapter about military use of rockets. “My advice is for more peace and war, and I keep my rifles calmly, so bullets will not be fired, gunpowder will not be burned or wet, so the prince will keep his money and Arsenal will master his life,” he wrote. However, given what he must have learned while living in a politically unstable European border area, he certainly understood to some extent that it was easier to reach the moon.
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