#verein fur raumschiffahrt

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O'Neill inspired the first new grass-roots activist community devoted to space since the 1930s of the Verein für Raumschiffahrt, the British Interplanetary Society and the American Rocket Society.*

* The ARS had by this stage been rolled into the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a thoroughly professionalized institution; the BIS continued in its quirky, part-time way, as it does to this day and will, I hope, continue to do for centuries to come.

"The Moon: A History for the Future" - Oliver Morton

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5 German Inventions

1. 1920(s): Alcohol fueled engine (it exploded and killed the inventor)-Max Valier (Verein für Raumschiffahrt)

2. 1800(s): Ab cruncher -Gustav Zander

3. 1940(s): Panzerchrek bazooka gun

4. 1905: Nestle Permanent Hair Wave (hair heats up to 212 degrees and sits for 6 hours) -Karl Ludvig Nessler (Nestle)

5. 1936: Reichspost videophone

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Oberth gave lectures on such possibilities. But, in his memoirs, Willy Ley, vice president of the VfR, recalled a conversation with the older man after a lecture in the late 1920s:

"Do you think, Herr Professor, that there will be a need for rockets carrying a load of mail over five hundred kilometers?"

Oberth looked at me with the smile which old-fashioned pedagogues reserve for people whom they call "my dear young friend" and said after a while: "There will be need for rockets which carry a thousand pounds of dynamite."

"The Moon: A History for the Future" - Oliver Morton