himpan joseph (1 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Lancaster, PA / New York, NY: American Association of Physics Teachers / American Institute of Physics, 1949. 239-326 pp. 26.5 x 20 cm. Beige stiff paper wrappers with black lettering to covers and spine. Very light toning to spine with a black marker streak near head of spine. Very slight bumps to corners of covers and text block. Previous owner's name in ink at upper corner of front cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. Contains 'Can We Fly to the Moon?' by Himpan and Reichel, which lays out the ratio of payload to total weight for a rocket using chemical propellants, and which concludes that such a project would be impossible given how large and heavy a rocket would have to be to carry a man to the moon. This particular copy of the journal was previously owned by the physicist Robert Brode, who led the group in Los Alamos at the Manhattan Project that developed the fuses used in atomic bombs. . Soft Cover. Very Good.