Pedro Paulet
Pedro Paulet (
July 2 1874 -
1945) was a
peruvian scientist who in
1895 became the first person to build a liquid-fueled rocket engine. He did not put such an engine in a vehicle and fly it, as
Robert H. Goddard did in
1926, however. It remained strapped to his test bench. Paulet was a theorist about space travel.
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The alleged contributions of Pedro E. Paulet to liquid-propellant rocketry ORDWAY, NASA, Washington Essays on the History of Rocketry and Astronautics, Vol. 2 p 25-41 (SEE N77-33048 23-99); United States; 1977 [
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Biography from his great niece from
21st century: Science & Technology magazine
