Chronological History of the Career of Robert H.Goddard

This is a list of dates and accomplishments of his career:

1882

Born at Maple Hill, Worcester, Massachusetts

1883

Moved with family to Boston, Massachusetts

1898

Moved with family to Maple Hill, Worcester,

1904-1908

Student, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (B.S. in 1908)

1908-1909

Faculty, Dept. of Physics, W.P.I., and special student in Physics, Clark University

1909-1911

Fellow in Physics, Clark University (A.M. 1910, Ph.D. 1911)

1911-1912, 1914-1915, 1918-1920

Honorary Fellow in Physics, Clark Univesity

1912-1913

Research instructor in Physics, Princeton University

1914, July

Awarded first two patents for a rocket apparatus: A Liquid Fuel Gun Rocket; and a Multistage Step Rocket.

1917, January 5

Received first financial assistance from the Smithsonian Institution

1920-1923

Part-Time consultant on solid propellant rocket weapons for U.S. Government at Indian Head, Maryland

1923-1943

Director of Physical Laboratories, Clark University

1924, June 21

Married Esther Christine Kisk

1926, March 16

First to develop and launch a liquid-propellant rocket, at Auburn, Mass.

1930, July 10 -1932

First two year grant from Daniel Giggenheim, began conducting full time rocket research at Roswell, New Mexico (on leave of absence from Clark University)

1942-1945

Director of Research, Navy Dept., Bureau of Aeronautics developing jet-assisted takeoff and variable thrust liquid propellant rockets, at Roswell, New Mexico and Annapolis Maryland

1943-1945

Consulting Engineer, Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Caldwell New Jersey

1944-1945

Director, American Rocket Society

1945, June 2

Received honorary Doctor of Science degree, Clark University

1945, August 10

Died at Baltimore, Maryland. Buried at Hope Cemetery, Worcester, Massachusetts

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