“K. E. Tsiolkovskii. Life, Writings, and Rockets”

N.A.Rynin, Leningrad, 1931.

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT AND COMMUNICATION

VolumeIII, No. 7

Translated from Russian in 1971

 

INTRODUCTION

Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovskii, a Russian scientist and inventor, is known to many a s a highly original researcher in different fields of science and technology. Despite his advanced age (he was born in 1857),he is still active in his research in Kaluga. His numerous publications are widely circulated in the USSR. Some of them have been translated into European languages. There is still much left to be done, as he himself maintains.

Although it is very difficult for contemporaries to assess correctly and objectively the work and the life of a genius working in their midst, we believe that a description of Tsiolkovskii’s life and a brief review of his major work will be of considerable interest to wide circles of readers, despite the inevitably fragmentary and somewhat subjective treatment.

This book is published on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of K. E. Tsiolkovskii, due to take place in 1932.

N. Rynin

 

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