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Ignition! : An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John Davidson, 1884- Clark is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Ignition! is the inside story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant that could be trusted to take man into space. A favorite of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, listeners will want to tune into this "really good book on rocket[s]," available for the first time in audio.Ignition! 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 that eventually took men to the moon, missiles to the planets, and satellites to outer space. A classic work in the history of science, listeners will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades.

Who reads Ignition! : An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants?

Author

John Davidson, 1884- Clark

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published

1972

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813585536

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Engineering, Science

Rating

4.23 / 5 (288 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14