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1918 TSIOLKOVSKY MANUSCRIPT: ROCKET FLIGHT IDEA


It's offered to your attention Konstantin Tsiolkovsky manuscript of 1918 named "ROCKET FLIGHT IDEA. PRINCIPLES OF RECOIL, ROCKET AND EXPLOSION" on a leaf of about 53/4x81/4" (148x210 mm), handwritten on two sides, about some ideas regarding using space rocket for space flight. The manuscript is in Russian, it contains Tsiolkovsky scetches and his two signatures through the text.

Below you can see the original Tsiolkovsky manuscript scan (left column) and the text compilation translated in English and placed over the original scetces for better understanding (right column).

Original scan of Tsiolkovsky manuscript

that's what buyer will get

Graphics compilation with translated text

presented for better understanding the manuscript
(the buyer won't get it, it's just graphics for help)

Tsiolkovsky Konstantin Eduardovich was a philosopher, the great enthusiast of metal dirigible building and space exploration. Living in Russian city Kaluga, far from the capital in a small house, being half-deaf, self-taught scientist Tsiolkovsky worked as the teacher of mathematics in local school! His name became well-known in the world because of his dreams about space and rockets! He foreknew and described in his works (1903 and 1914) the future principals of space flights using jet power and rockets, the weightlessness problem, how to survive in spaceship and the necessary equipment for that and for "space walks". Fantastic person! We may just be delighted with his clear ideas what he had living in a province of not an advanced country...

FORMAT: 53/3x81/4" (148x210 mm)

CONDITION - VERY GOOD FOR ITS AGE. Please see the scans.

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