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John Drury Clark - Ignition!, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Ignition!

Av John Drury Clark

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Beskrivning
A classic work in the history of science. Readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades.  This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety.Acclaimed scientist and sci-fi author John Drury Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the relentless restraints of gravity. The resulting volume is as much a memoir as a work of history, sharing a behind-the-scenes view of an enterprise which eventually took men to the moon, missiles to the planets, and satellites to outer space.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2018-05-23
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 24 mm
  • Vikt: 230 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 216
  • Förlag: Rutgers University Press
  • Medarbetare: Isaac Asimov
  • ISBN: 9780813595832
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2 recensioner, genomsnitt 4/5

  1. 5/5 Johan

    John D Clark skriver mycket underhållande om sin tid som forskare inom området raketbränslen.
    Första gången på många år som den här boken har kommit i tryck.
    Kapitlet om Klortrifluorid är bara det värt varenda krona.

    "It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes."

  2. 3/5 Katarina