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Physicist and inventor (1882–1945) credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. Desirable signed illustration plate from "Liquid-Propellant Rocket Development" by Robert H. Goddard, removed from Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (Vol. 95, No. 3, 16 March 1936), 9.5 x 6.25, featuring two monochrome plate images: the first showing Goddard standing outdoors with a gyroscope stabilizer in his hands, and the second showing Goddard and two assistants testing gyroscope and directing vanes before a flight by inclining and rotating a rocket suspended from a 20-foot tower. Signed in the lower left margin in blue ink, “R. H. Goddard.” The reverse bears two additional related rocket-development images, showing a clock mechanism on the recording telescope and a concrete dugout constructed near the launch tower for close-range observation. In fine condition, with the signature a shade or two light.
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