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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Worcester Polytechnic Institute alumni, Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty, Worcester Tech Engineers football coaches, Harold Stephen Black, Robert H. Goddard, Elwood Haynes, Jack Siedlecki, Paul Stagg, James C. Donnelly, Todd Akin, Karl Meissner, George Cowan, Dan Itse, Kaveh Pahlavan, Alden Research Laboratory, Arthur E. Martell, Kieran Suckling, Kotaro Shimomura, Kevin Morris, John William Kendrick, Don Millard, Center for Wireless Information Network Studies, Charles G. Washburn, Richard T. Whitcomb, Dominic Giampaolo, Gilbert Vernam, Brian Moriarty, Ichabod Washburn, Ralph Earle, Levi L. Conant, Shawn Halloran, Robert Stempel, Neil Heffernan, Frederick Bianchi, C. Chapin Cutler, Paul Allaire, Thomas Kilgore Sherwood, James Pierpont, Albert Sacco, List of Worcester Polytechnic Institute fraternities and sororities, Nancy Pimental, Curtis Carlson, William Macdonald, Gretar Tryggvason, David F. Emery, Dennis D. Berkey, Louis Nashelsky, John Woodman Higgins, Michael D. Smith, David S. Adams, Michael Sokal, Institute Park. Excerpt: Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 - August 10, 1945) was an American professor, physicist and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which he successfully launched on March 16, 1926. Goddard and his team launched 34 rockets between 1926 and 1941, achieving altitudes as high as 2.6 km (1.62 miles) and speeds as high as 885 km/h (550 mph). As both theorist and engineer, Goddard's work anticipated many of the developments that made spaceflight possible. Two of Goddard's 214 patents - one for a multi-stage rocket design (1915), and another for a liquid-fuel rocket design (1915) - are regarded as important milestones toward spaceflight. His 1919 monograph, A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes, is considered one of the classic ...
