Ignition! Book about the development of rocketfuels in the States during the Cold War

[Boosterspice]

Hi everyone,

I've been quite fascinated by rockets for some time, and I have stumbled across a brilliant book about the development of rocket fuels. It is written by a chief chemists working in the middle of everything, and he has a lot of interesting stories. This book contains advanced chemistry, but it is written with humor (see the second quote in my signature). If you know a little chemistry, it's even better, but it is fun to read even if you don't have a lot of knowledge regarding chemistry.

Now, this book is quite old, so if you want it in paper, you'll have to go to the nearest antique store and ask them. However, some nice person took the time to scan every single page and put them in a .pdf

Here's the link: http://www.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf

Enjoy!

[dimovski]

Is this legal?Ahh not that I care anyway, thx.

[Bunsen]

I love this book, and have to thank Derek Lowe of In the Pipeline for making me aware of it. Some of the things they were into make Kerbals look like the definition of sanity and sobriety by comparison.

I'm not sure about the strict legality of the online copy, but it's long out of print and nobody seems to have asserted copyright over it in quite a number of years.

[philly_idle]

Nice book! It tried to find a dealer that has it in stock, but it appears to be long out of print.

The only copies I found start at ~300$!

I'd love to buy this book but come on....thats WAY beyond what I am able to spend on a book.

[Boosterspice]

Yeah, they are more or less antique now. This book is best to read on a Kindle, I have one myself. Anyway, good to see that people actually like the science behind rockets as well