Big Ideas That Changed the World No. 1: Rocket to the Moon!

Big Ideas That Changed the World No. 1: Rocket to the Moon! — page 9
The rocket idea spread By the fifteenth century the English and French were using rockets as weapons and fireworks In the sixteenth century a German fireworks maker named Johann Schmidlap rhymes with Fmidlap Mon Dieu had an idea to make a two-stage rocket The bottom stage or part fired until it ran out of fuel and fell away Then the second stage fired sending the rocket even higher 8