This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard 00:02:16 1 Early life and inspiration 00:03:28 1.1 Childhood experiment 00:05:25 1.2 Cherry tree dream 00:06:59 2 Education and early studies 00:07:39 2.1 Aerodynamics and motion 00:09:32 2.2 Academics 00:12:11 2.3 First scientific writings 00:13:46 3 First patents 00:17:55 4 Early rocketry research 00:21:20 4.1 Smithsonian Institution sponsorship 00:23:56 4.2 Goddard's military rocket 00:27:19 5 iA Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes/i 00:31:18 5.1 Publicity and criticism 00:33:17 5.1.1 iNew York Times/i editorial 00:36:14 5.1.2 Aftermath 00:38:23 5.1.3 'A Correction' 00:39:08 6 First liquid-fueled flight 00:39:18 6.1 First static tests 00:41:01 6.2 First flight 00:44:21 7 Lindbergh and Goddard 00:46:12 7.1 Guggenheim sponsorship 00:47:34 7.2 Lack of vision in the United States 00:50:56 8 Roswell, New Mexico 00:56:53 8.1 General Jimmy Doolittle 00:59:24 8.2 Launch history 00:59:39 8.3 Analysis of results 01:02:45 9 Annapolis, Maryland 01:07:57 10 V-2 01:11:17 11 Goddard's secrecy 01:17:12 12 Personal life 01:19:37 13 Legacy 01:19:47 13.1 Influence 01:22:52 13.2 Patents of interest 01:25:01 13.3 Other firsts 01:26:31 14 Quotations 01:28:16 15 Timeline 01:29:30 16 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.9233687127437993 Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-D "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. Goddard successfully launched his model on March 16, 1926, ushering in an era of space flight and innovation. He and his team launched 34 rockets between 1926 and 1941, achieving altitudes as high as 2.6 km (1.6 mi) and speeds as fast as 885 km/h (550 mph).Goddard's work as both theorist and engineer anticipated many of the developments that were to make spaceflight possible. He has been called the man who ushered in the Space Age. Two of Goddard's 214 patented inventions—a multi-stage rocket (1914), and a liquid-fuel rocket (1914)—were important milestones toward spaceflight. His 1919 monograph A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes is considered one of the classic texts of 20th-century rocket science. Goddard successfully applied three-axis control, gyroscopes and steerable thrust to rockets to effectively control their flight. Although his work in the field was revolutionary, Goddard received very little public support for his research and development work. The press sometimes ridiculed his theories of spaceflight. As a result, he became protective of his privacy and his work. Years after his death, at the dawn of the Space Age, he came to be recognized as one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry, along with Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and Hermann Oberth. He not only recognized the potential of rockets for atmospheric research, ballistic missiles and space travel but was the first to scientifically study, design and construct the rockets needed to implement those ideas.NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center was named in Goddard's honor in 1959.