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Background
What is a rocket? According to NASA, the word
rocket can be understood in various ways. Most people
think that it is a thin round shape vehicle that lands on an
object called launcher before the energy is at the point
that it is ready to take off. In the early days, one of the
first device that was successful to flight a rocket used a
principle of a wooden bird.
About 100 B. C., a Greek Hero of Alexandria,
invented a similar rocket device called an aeolipile. It
used steam as a propulsive gas. Hero mounted a sphere
on top of a water kettle. A fire below was turning the
water into steam and then the gas pass through the pipe
and escaped into the sphere. The two L - shaped tubes on
each opposite sides of the sphere allows the gas to exit
to the environment, helping the sphere to rotate.
First rocket appeared anonymously. In the
past, rocket devices appear sporadically through
the historical records. However, the successful
rocket came from an accident. In the first A. D.,
Chinese people invented a simple form of
gunpowder made from saltpeter, sulfur and
charcoal dust to use them as weapons during the
war. These inventions filled bamboo tubes with
mixtures and was tossed into fire. Perhaps some
of those tubes failed to explode and instead
skittered out of the fires, propelled by the gases
and sparks produced by the burning gunpowder.