Some people involved in rocket development (chronological order)

Archytas (c. 428–c. 350 BC)
Hero of Alexandria (1st century AD)
Albertus Magnus (1193–1280)
Bacon, Roger (c. 1214–c. 1292)
Froissart, Jean (c. 1337–1410)
Biringuccio, Vannoccio (1480–1537)
Haas, Conrad (c. 1509–1579)
Schmidlap, Johan (16th century)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1618–1655)
Tipu Sultan (c. 1750–1799)
Ruggieri, Claude (fl. early 19th century)
Congreve, William (1772–1828)
De Laval, Gustav (1845–1913)
Kibalchich, Nikolai (1854–1881)
Ganswindt, Hermann (1856–1934)
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin (1857–1935)
Maul, Alfred (1864–1941)
Hohmann, Walter (1880–1945)
von Pirquet, Guido (1880–1966)
Esnault-Pelterie, Robert (1881–1957)
Goddard, Robert (1882–1945)
von Hoefft, Franz (1882–1954)
Le Prieur, Yves Paul Gaston (1885–1963)
Paulet, Pedro E. (1874–1945)
Tsander, Fridrikh (1887–1933)
Winkler, Johannes (1887–1947)
Damblanc, Louis (1889–1969)
Tiling, Reinhold (1890–1933)
Valier, Max (1893–1930)
Oberth, Hermann (1894–1989)
Schmiedl, Friedrich (1902–1994)
Sänger, Eugen (1905–1964)
Tsien, Hsue-Shen (1911–2009)
von Braun, Wernher (1912–1977)
Wyld, James (1913-1953)

Rocket technology and places

"A" series of German rockets
Aberdeen Proving Ground
aeolipile
black powder
Chinese fire-arrows
guided missiles, postwar development
Kummersdorf
Magdeburg Project
Mirak (Minimum Rakete)
NACA
OKB-1
OKB-52
OKB-586
Opel-RAK
Paperclip, Operation
Peenemünde
"V" weapons
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