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Hermann Oberth as a young boy, c. 1901. Oberth was born into a Transylvanian Saxon family in Nagyszeben (Hermannstadt), Kingdom of Hungary (today Sibiu in Romania); [8] and besides his native German, he was fluent in Hungarian and Romanian as well. At the age of 11, Oberth's interest in rocketry was sparked by the novels of Jules Verne ...
25 June 1894 in Sibiu, Romania. 28 December 1989 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. 1967 [a] "for contributions to astronautics and rocketry, and discovering the effect for fuel-saving maneuvers in interplanetary space flights (Oberth effect)." [8] Ferdinand Cap [de] (1924–2016) Austria.
Another serious explosion at 12:29 PM on August 28, 1944, killed 27 people and caused significant damage to the facility. Among the 27 casualties was Ilse Oberth (1924–1944), the youngest daughter of rocket pioneer Hermann Julius Oberth. Ilse Oberth worked at the facility as a rocket technician and had arrived four months earlier on April 28 ...
Wege zur Raumschiffahrt (Ways to space travel) is a book by Hermann Oberth. Written in German, it was published in 1929 by the Munich Oldenbourg publishing house [1] and was considered a standard work in rocketry for a long time. It was - with a new title and completely revised - the 3rd edition of Oberth's first book Die Rakete zu den ...
Hermann Julius Oberth (June 25, 1894—December 28, 1989) was a German physicist, and one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. In 1922 , his doctoral dissertation on rocket science was rejected as "utopian".
Hermann Oberth: Pioneer of rocket science and discoverer of the Oberth effect. August Oetker: Pharmacist. He was the first to sell baking powder in small packets to households instead of bakeries (as others before him) and thus made it the popular product we know today. Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain: The modern jet engine in 1933, patented in 1936.
The Hermann Oberth Space Travel Museum (Hermann-Oberth-Raumfahrt-Museum, or Hermann-Oberth-Museum for short) is a museum of space technology in the Franconian city of Feucht in Bavaria, Germany. It commemorates the life work of the famous visionary and rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth. Exhibits include a Kumulus rocket and a Cirrus rocket, which ...
Julius Caesar burned his ships during the Siege of Alexandria in 48 BC. [8] Ancient writers said the fire spread and destroyed part of the Library's collections; [8] the Library seems to have partially survived or been quickly rebuilt. [8] In 48 BC, during Caesar's Civil War, Julius Caesar was besieged at Alexandria.