Robert Goddard Biography

Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard (In full: Robert Hutchings Goddard) was an eminent American
phyisict and inventor. Widely regarded as the founder of modern rocketry, Goddard created
the first liquid-fueled rocket. He published A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes in
1919, a classic treatise that remains the most influential work in 20th century rocket science.
Early Life and Education:
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1882, Robert Goddard earned a B.S. degree in
physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1908, and an A.M. degree in physics from
Clark University in 1910. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1911, he became a very popular
physics professor.
Contributions and Achievements:
Robert Goddard was the first scientist to transcend the traditional focus from the
substance to be ignited to oxygen, the element essential for combustion. He established that
rockets based on atmospheric oxygen can never fly in space, where the lack of oxygen will
eliminate combustion. Goddard also discovered the rate of combustion depends on the
amount of oxygen.
Wernher von Braun, a German physicist and a friend of Goddard, instituted the
German Rocket Society in 1927, following Goddards March 1926 launch of a rocket fueled
by gasoline and liquid oxygen. The German army started research to create a long-range
missile using liquid propellants in 1931. Goddard unknowingly assisted the program by
answering telephone queries from German engineers. However, by 1939, Nazi aggression
alerted him.

From May to July of 1940, Goddard explained U.S. Army and Navy officials about
the German threat and the necessity for the United States to produce its own long-range
missiles. Although war planners largely ignored him, thinking that Germany was not capable
of launching a missile across the Atlantic, Goddard worked for the navy between 1942 and
1945, as director of research in the Bureau of Aeronautics, creating experimental engines.
Later Life and Death:
Robert Goddard became a consultant for Curtiss-Wright Corporation, a leading aircraft firm,
in 1943, and director of the American Rocket Society in 1944. He died of throat cancer in
Baltimore, Maryland, on August 10, 1945. Goddard was 62 years old.
John Goddard's "Life List"
John Goddard is most known for his amazing Life List of accomplishments. At the
age of fifteen John Goddard listed 127 goals he wished to experience or achieve in his
lifetime. The list is impressive and audacious, but the results have been truly incredible.

John Goddard Quotes :

Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier
collapses.
Beberapa orang menunggu begitu lama untuk kapal mereka
datang, hingga runtuh dermaga mereka.

If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how
opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out.

Jika Anda benar-benar tahu apa yang Anda inginkan dari hidup, itu
sangat menakjubkan bagaimana peluang memberi kesempatan
Anda untuk mewujudkannya.

You need a plan for everything, whether it's building a cathedral or a chicken coop.
Without

plan,

you'll

postpone

living

until

you're

dead.

Anda perlu rencana untuk semuanya, apakah itu membangun katedral atau kandang
ayam. Tanpa rencana, Anda akan ditunda hidup sampai kau mati.

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To dare is to do ... to fear is to fail.

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