A La Conquista Del Espacio.
First descriptions of Germany’s V- weapons in a book in the Spanish language. Illustrated.
Navigation Interplanétaire.
Ananoff’s first book—previous publications were pamphlets or reprints of conferences—presents the problems of space travel and potential solutions.
Dawn Of The Space Age.
Written by a journalist and member of the British Interplanetary Society (B.I.S.) It was approved as a non-technical presentation by the B.I.S.
U.S. Rocket Ordnance Development And Use In World War II.
Describes the rocket ordnance in the U.S. arsenal, its development and deployment in combat. First edition, wraps. Illustrated.
The Moon Rocket.
Discusses rocketry, spaceflight, and spaceship projects of the British Interplanetary Society (B.I.S.). Two exemplars in the collection, one ex- library.
Ballistics Of The Future.
Highly detailed report on the V2 weapons. Available in this collection in three exemplars: European first edition (1946), U.S. first edition (1946), and Russian first edition (1950).
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Rockets.
Reprint of Goddard’s seminal monographs (1919, 1936) with the addition of a biography of Goddard by George Pendray and a foreword written by Goddard.
Jet Engines In Aviation.
A scientist in the fields of thermodynamics and the theory of engines. Held a department chair at the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI). The book discusses jet engines only.
Firing Of Rockets From Aircraft.
Restricted OSRD report on aircraft rocket launchers, sights, and flight tests, prepared for the Aircraft Launcher Group under Nobel laureate Carl D. Anderson (Physics, 1936), with Chapter 5 by William R. Smythe and sections of Chapter 3 by Leverett Davis, Jr. Edited by Catherine Campbell. Profusely illustrated with photographic plates and diagrams.
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Firing of Rockets from Aircraft
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L’Humanité Devant La Navigation Interplanétaire.
Discusses voyages to the Moon and Mars, space stations and satellites. Contains an appendix on nuclear energy.
The Boys' Book Of Rockets.
Illustrated introduction to rocketry and space travel for young readers.
German Research In World War II.
Describes the German war effort and the rocketry activities at Peenemünde.
Mathematical Theory Of Rocket Flight.
Official final report on aerodynamics of fin-stabilized rockets.
The Problem Of Flight With The Aid Of Reactive Vehicles.
Edited by M.K. Tikhonravov. It’s an updated and extended edition of Tsander’s book from 1932.
Rocketry - Jets And Rockets.
Extensive survey of rocket designs and their applications for interstellar travel and war, with chapters on the German rocket weapons of WWII.
Voyages Interplanétaires et Energie Atomique.
An engineer's technical assessment of whether atomic energy could power interplanetary travel, prefaced by physicist Maurice de Broglie. Richard-Foy works through the astronomical, dynamical, and thermodynamic constraints on a rocket voyage to Venus, Mars, or the Moon, then models an atomic-pile engine — a uranium fission reactor standing in for the combustion chamber, heating a working fluid that is ejected as reaction mass in place of a chemical propellant. He tabulates fuel consumption for different trajectories (as little as 4 kg of uranium per tonne of payload for a 50-hour lunar round trip, tens of kilograms per tonne for six-month Venus or Mars voyages) and works through problems of weight, atmospheric transit, and thermal protection. His conclusion is notably cautious: interplanetary flight remained tied to conditions — new isothermal nozzles, heat-resistant materials, concentrated uranium-235 piles safe at high temperature — that seemed, in 1947, still very improbable; lunar flight, he judged, was comparatively nearer at hand.
Des Premières Fusées au V-2.
Explores peaceful uses of V2 rockets.
The Technology Of Rocket Flight.
Russian edition of Sänger’s Raketenflugtechnik (Munich, 1933) also available in the collection.
Works On Rocket Technology.
Edited by M.K. Tikhonravov.
New Weapons For Air Warfare.
One of the eight volumes in the official OSRD’s series Science in World War II. Discusses antiaircraft weapons, whether rocket-propelled or not. The other volume in the series devoted to rocketry (Rockets, Guns And Targets, 1948) is also available in this collection.
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Rocket Ordnance in Action
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Basic Theory Of Reactive Engines.
Discusses German fighters with ramjet engines, the V1, and the V2 weapons.
Conquest Of Interplanetary Space.
Second edition of the 1929 work. 5,000 copies.
Les Armes Secrètes Allemandes.
Discusses the use of rockets (V1, V2) by Germany in WWII and has a section on interplanetary travel. Second augmented edition.
Early Tales Of The Atomic Age.
Articles from The New Yorker about the scientific war effort. Chapters 9 and 10 discuss experiments with V2 weapons in New Mexico and seem to be the first mention of Wernher von Braun by name in the U.S. press as leader of the German group that arrived with Project Paperclip. The White Sands chapter, “V2s Among the Rattlers,” originally appeared as “A Reporter At Large: White Sands” in The New Yorker, July 24, 1948, also in this collection.
Principles Of Jet Propulsion And Gas Turbines.
Textbook based on a course given by the author in 1943-1944. Includes a chapter on "The Rocket Motor" that discusses the principles of rocket motor design and operation.
Rocket Development.
Excerpts from Goddard’s notebooks on liquid fuel rocket research 1929-1941 with detailed descriptions of tests and results. Illustrated. A reprint was published in 1961.
Motores De Reacción.
Discusses turbines and jets, with a chapter on reactive motors that includes some of the first descriptions and illustrations of the V1 and V2 weapons in Spanish. Two exemplars in the collection.
Les Robots Aériens.
Includes a description of Germany’s V-weapons. First edition.
Weltraumfahrt - Utopie?
Collection of articles on space travel originally printed in the magazine.
Physik Der Weltraumfahrt.
Volume 2 of the “Erforschte Welt” (Explored World) series, published under Allied Military Government License Nr. US-E-120. Gail’s foreword, dated Munich, summer 1948, reflects on technology’s capacity for both good and destruction in the war’s aftermath. Fourteen chapters work through the physics of rocket flight — recoil, escape velocity (11.2 km/sec), orbital trajectories, propulsion, weight versus mass, and the hazards of space — explicitly rejecting Jules Verne’s cannon-shot Moon voyage as physically impossible in favor of rocket propulsion, and closing with data tables and a glossary covering figures such as Tsiolkovsky and Max Valier. Gail (1896–1966), Munich-trained and a prolific writer of both technical science fiction and popular-science books translated across Europe, is represented elsewhere in the collection by his earlier novels Hans Hardt’s Mondfahrt, Mit Raketenkraft Ins Weltall, and By Rocket To The Moon.
Voyages To The Moon.
Discusses the literary depiction of lunar voyages. Extensive bibliography on fictional spaceflight.
From The Rocket To The Reactive Airplane.
Review of jets and rocket motors including war and space travel applications.
Rocket.
Juvenile literature on rockets and rocket weapons.
Tsiolkovsky: Stenographed Lectures.
Collection of lectures by Tsiolkovsky. Two exemplars in the collection.
Gas Turbines And Jet Propulsion.
Briefly suggests rocketry as a propulsion system for interstellar travel (page 10).
Rockets, Guns And Targets.
One of eight volumes in the official OSRD’s series Science in World War II. Discusses development of rocket weapons in the U.S. such as recoilless guns, hypervelocity projectiles, and describes ballistics of rockets. The other volume in the series devoted to rocketry (New Weapons For Air Warfare, 1947) is also available in this collection.
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Rocket Ordnance in Action
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Aircraft as Fighter Robots.
The first book-length discussion of WWII rocket weapons in Spanish. Written by a Polish engineer who flew reconnoissance missions with the Royal Air Force (RAF) and studied German weapons before moving to Argentina.
The Conquest Of Space.
Illustrated by Chesley Bonestell. This is the classic coffee table book that inspired so many careers in aerospace.
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The Conquest of Space
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Weltraumflug.
Describes orbits and interplanetary flight from an astronomical and mathematic point of view.
Guided Missiles.
Collection of articles mostly focused on guided missiles and the V1.
Rockets And Jets.
Introduction to rocket propulsion.
High-Altitude Rocket Research With V-2 Rockets.
Excerpt from the Smithsonian Annual Report for 1948. Summarizes results of experiments with V2 rockets in the US.
Kleine Raketenkunde.
Devoted to rocket propulsion up to the end of WWII and its potential uses for space travel. Two exemplars in the collection.
Rocket Propulsion Elements.
The first English-language engineering textbook to treat rocket propulsion systematically, grown out of an upper-division course Sutton taught through the UCLA Extension Division. Sutton was Supervisor of Propulsion Development at North American Aviation, and the manuscript was submitted to military authorities for security clearance before publication, since much of the underlying data on rocket engines was still classified. Chapters cover nozzle theory and thermodynamics, propellant performance calculations, liquid and solid propellant systems, feed systems, flight performance, and rocket testing, illustrated with contemporary material including a V-2 power-plant flow diagram and photographs of White Sands test launches. First published in 1949, the book went through repeated revisions over the following decades and remains, in a later edition, the standard English-language textbook on rocket propulsion. This copy is the first printing of the first edition, retaining its dust jacket; the second printing and the second edition (1956) are also in the collection.
Rocket Propulsion Elements.
Second printing of the first edition. The first printing (also 1949) and the second edition are also available in this collection.
From Rocket To Jet Aircraft.
Signed. Provincial book publication. Only 2,000 copies printed.
Flight Into Universal Space.
Introduction to rocketry. The French edition (1954) of this work is also available in the collection.
Biography: The famous scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
Kosmodemyansky would edit the Russian edition of Ballistics of The Future a year later. Two exemplars in the collection.
Nota Informativa Sulla Propulsione A Reazione E Sul Pilotaggio Dei Velivoli A Reazione.
Introductory text to reaction motors with a brief description of rocket propulsion.
The Atmospheres Of The Earth And Planets.
Papers presented at the 1947 Yerkes Observatory Symposium. Several papers on the study of the upper atmosphere using captured V2 rockets.
Physics And Chemistry Of Reactive Devices.
The three volumes (1948-1949) are available in the collection. Articles translated from German, English, and French.