- Pedro Paulet
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name = Pedro Paulet
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birth_date =July 2 1874
birth_place =Arequipa ,Peru
death_date = 1945
death_place =Buenos Aires ,Argentina
residence =France
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ethnicity = Peruvian
field =liquid-fueled engine
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footnotes =Pedro Paulet (born
July 2 1874 inArequipa ,Peru ; died 1945 inBuenos Aires ,Argentina ) was aPeru vianscientist who in 1895 became the first person to build a liquid-fueled rocket engine. However, the engine remained strapped to his test bench.News of this groundbreaking advance in rocketry did not surface until October 27, 1927, when a letter from Paulet appeared in an issue of the Peruvian newspaper
El Comercio in which Paulet claimed legal ownership of his earlier rocket motor design. Recognizing that rocketry was beginning to boom in Europe, Paulet sought witnesses to help verify the work he said he had done years earlier. The letter was circulated across the world by an Alexander Scherschevsky, a Russian National, in summary form. Had Paulet's work been authenticated, he would today be considered the undisputed father of liquid propellant rocketry. As it is that title is more commonly attributed toRobert H. Goddard , who in 1926, flew a liquid-fueled rocket engine in a test vehicle.Paulet also designed reaction motors in 1895, propulsion systems in 1900 and an airplane using thermoelectric batteries and rocket engines in 1902. He alluded to the use of nuclear propelled rockets for flights to the moon.
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The rocket Paulet I, a joint venture between the
Peruvian Air Force and other Peruvian scientific entities, was named in Paulet's honor and was launched onDecember 27 ,2006 . It reached an altitude 45 km and traveled at five times the speed of sound. This is Peru's first venture into space. Future plans include putting a satellite into orbit.Fact|date=December 2007Literature
* "The alleged contributions of Pedro E. Paulet to liquid-propellant rocketry" ORDWAY, NASA, Washington Essays on the History of Rocketry and Astronautics, Vol. 2 p 25-41 (SEE N77-33048 23-99); United States; 1977 [ [http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=%22Pedro+E.+Paulet%22&btnG=Search "Pedro E. Paulet" - Google Scholar ] at scholar.google.com]
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External links
* [http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/winter01/paulet.html Biography from his great niece] from "21st century: Science & Technology" magazine
* [http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/P/Paulet.html Biographical information]
* [http://www.incaland.com/pedropaulet Biography (In Spanish)]
* [http://www.conida.gob.pe/acti/coheteria.html CONIDA and Paulet I rocket (In Spanish)]
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