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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, The Father of Astronautics: Collection of Six Vintage Russian Portraits....
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, The Father of Astronautics: Collection of Six Vintage Russian Portraits. All are glossy B&W images ranging in size from 2.5" x 4.25" to 4.5" x 6.75". They portray this legendary scientist in various poses. Two are annotated on the verso in Russian. Certainly not common. Very good to fine.Born in 1857, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was rendered deaf during a childhood bout with scarlet fever. He was largely self-taught and his first formal employment was as a "people's school teacher" in 1878. Although without any resources outside of his meager salary, Tsiolkovsky conducted his own engineering research. In 1883, he demonstrated the reaction principle while experimenting with opening a cask filled with compressed gas. In 1898 he finished a design of a reaction thrust motor. The following year, the Physics and Mathematics Department of the Academy of Science granted him 470 rubles to further research the principles of the reaction thrust motor. Tsiolkovsky published his first article on rocketry in 1903. It was a discussion of how a reaction thrust motor could demonstrate Newton's Third Law, allowing men to escape the gravitational force of the earth. In the same year the scientist produced his first design for a rocket. According to Tsiolkovsky's plan, the vessel was to be powered by a combination of liquid oxygen and hydrogen. Mixing at the end of a tube, the fuels would produce condensed and heated gases. Tsiolkovsky also hypothesized the creation of a "rocket train", a multistage rocket ship the layers of which would be discarded as the fuel they carried was consumed. In 1919 he was elected to the Socialist Academy (later the U.S.S.R. Academy of Science). During the course of this life, Tsiolkovsky produced approximately sixty works on physics, astronomy, and astronautics. In 1935 he published Na Lune (On the Moon), a compilation of descriptions of rockets and the other pieces of machinery required for spaceflights.
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2021 November 12 - 13 Space Exploration Signature® Auction #6244 (go to Auction Home page)
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November, 2021
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