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A method of reaching extreme altitudes [manuscript], approximately 1919

statement of responsibility: R.H. Goddard · Typescript, with mathematical formulae handwritten in ink, and mounted diagrams and photographs · Binder's title · Possibly a manuscript proof copy for the first published version of this title which was issued in v. 71, no. 2 of the Smithsonian miscellaneous collections (City of Washington : Smithsonian Institution, 1919) · Research conducted by Goddard at Clark College, Worchester, Massachusetts and Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey · Outline -- Pt. 1. Theory -- Pt. II. Experiments -- Pt. III. Calculations, based upon the theory and the experimental results -- Summary -- Conclusion -- Appendices A-G · NASMRB copy 39088014683783 has some ms. pencil and ink corrections throughout. Accession no. (National Air Museum): cat. no. 1959-15 · NASMRB copy has a contemporary green half-leather binding with marbled paper boards, raised bands, gilt-lettered spine, and gray endpapers. Two blank leaves (apparently of the same paper used for the text) are bound in at the end of the volume

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