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The Rocket Lab: Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University, and America's
Race to Space focuses on the golden era of space exploration
between 1946 and 1966, specifically the life and times of Purdue
University's Dr. Maurice J. Zucrow, a pioneering teacher and
researcher in aerospace engineering. Zucrow taught America's first
university course in jet and rocket propulsion, wrote the field's
first textbook, and established the country's first educational
Rocket Lab. He was part of a small circle of innovators who
transformed Purdue into the country's largest engineering
university, which became a cradle of astronauts. Taking a
chronological and thematic approach, The Rocket Lab weaves between
the local and national, drawing in rival universities, especially
Harvard, MIT, Princeton, and Caltech. Also covered is Zucrow's role
in the national project system of research and development through
World War II and the Cold War. At Aerojet, he was one of the
country's original project engineers, dedicated to
scientific-technical expertise and the stepwise approach. He made
vanguard power plant contributions to the Northrop Flying Wing, as
well as the Corporal, Nike, and Atlas missiles, among others.
Zucrow's work in propulsion helped to improve the country's arsenal
of ballistic missiles and space launchers, and as a teacher, he
educated the first generation of aerospace engineers. This book
elevates Zucrow and the central role he played in getting the
United States to space.
The Rocket Lab: Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University, and America's
Race to Space focuses on the golden era of space exploration
between 1946 and 1966, specifically the life and times of Purdue
University's Dr. Maurice J. Zucrow, a pioneering teacher and
researcher in aerospace engineering. Zucrow taught America's first
university course in jet and rocket propulsion, wrote the field's
first textbook, and established the country's first educational
Rocket Lab. He was part of a small circle of innovators who
transformed Purdue into the country's largest engineering
university, which became a cradle of astronauts. Taking a
chronological and thematic approach, The Rocket Lab weaves between
the local and national, drawing in rival universities, especially
Harvard, MIT, Princeton, and Caltech. Also covered is Zucrow's role
in the national project system of research and development through
World War II and the Cold War. At Aerojet, he was one of the
country's original project engineers, dedicated to
scientific-technical expertise and the stepwise approach. He made
vanguard power plant contributions to the Northrop Flying Wing, as
well as the Corporal, Nike, and Atlas missiles, among others.
Zucrow's work in propulsion helped to improve the country's arsenal
of ballistic missiles and space launchers, and as a teacher, he
educated the first generation of aerospace engineers. This book
elevates Zucrow and the central role he played in getting the
United States to space.
A family doctor's autobiography, focused on specific incidents or
narratives that highlight the insufficiency of modern Western
medicine to treat the whole person and provide healing whether or
not there is a cure.
One of the great figures of the American Enlightenment, David
Rittenhouse of Pennsylvania rose from his work as a mechanic and
clockmaker of exquisite craftsmanship to informed, careful
astronomy and effective experimental work in optics, magnetism, and
psychology. This book shows how he applied his scientific ability
to public projects and, eventually, to the establishment of a
'national mint', and how he used his increasing prestige to further
crucial political objectives of the time. This man, considered a
brilliant scientist by Franklin and Jefferson, was, according to
Benjamin Rush, "one of the luminaries of the eighteenth century."
Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
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