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Ladataan... Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics) (1972)Tekijä: John Drury Clark
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Essentially a book-length list of chemicals. ( ) Author John D. Clark’s ideal audience is propellant scientists and rocket engineers. They will appreciate his long experience and considerable technical savvy. If you’re not a propellant person, having had solid courses in chemistry will lessen the difficulties. The incantatory power of chemical names provides the narrative with an epic quality, almost as if the chemicals were characters in a saga and the chemists and engineers minor warring gods or spirits. Workers confront odors next to which the brimstone ones of Hades are as violets, and always looming near are surly phenomena capable of explosive complaints. I enjoyed Clark’s ever-present sense of humor. Any time the words “I had the bright idea . . . ” appear, you are about to be told how dangerously un-bright that idea proved. And his clear-eyed assessment of the computers of yore is perfect: “Everyone…has had, from time to time, a mad desire to attack the precocious abacus with an axe.” Oh, I love that line. One thing not especially discussed in detail is the question of value. Clark talks about how programs that had been set aside would be started again years later and still without useful result. What was necessary for these re-starts? New engineering developments elsewhere? Better fundamental chemical understanding developed in academia or industry or other arms efforts? One comes away thinking not necessarily, that re-funding a lapsed program sometimes just boiled down to lobbying skill. Isaac Asimov contributes a fun introduction. A useful glossary and index are included. Originally started reading the PDF version of this in April 2016, but since the PDF was suboptimal, I stopped reading it after a while. Then the new release came out, and I waited for three months (!) for my copy - yes, it was this popular. What can I say. It's a pretty great book. If you are at all interested in rocket fuels or chemistry, I highly recommend it. While I don't have the faintest clue about chemistry, the anecdotes alone are worth reading the book for, and I can only imagine that chemists will get a lot more out of this book. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint 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 which eventually took men to the moon, missiles to the planets, and satellites to outer space. A classic work in the history of science, and described as "a good book on rocket stuff...that's a really fun one" by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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