The social marketplace for new and used books.

Get started

Learn to sell
Learn to buy
Buy textbooks
Sign up
Buy a giftcard
For the authors

Support

Help
Track a shipment
Terms of use
Privacy policy
Cookies policy

Company

About us
Work with us
Give feedback
Categories

Contact us

Fast delivery with

Safe payments by

Visa
Mastercard
Vipps
Klarna

© 2026 Bookis AS

English

Norway

Region is based on IP address

  1. Home
  5. History of science
  1. Home
  3. Genres
  7. History of science
Ignition!

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Ignition!

By John Drury Clark

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌

About the book

This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety. Acclaimed scientist and sci-fi author John D. Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the...Show more

History of science

Book details

ISBN

9780813595832

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published year

2018

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Ignition!

Format

Paperback

Shippping and returns

Shipping

Used books are shipped by the seller. Expected delivery after package is sent is 2-4 days.

Returns

Contact the seller after delivery.

Other versions

Ignition!

Ignition!

Hardcover · 2018

Reviews · 0

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

You might also like

How to Build a Rocketship Into Space on a Shoestring Budget

How to Build a Rocketship Into Space on a Shoestring Budget

Jack Springler

In Plain Sight - An investigation into UFOs and impossible science

In Plain Sight - An investigation into UFOs and impossible science

Ross Coulthart

Test Gods Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut

Test Gods Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut

Nicholas Schmidle

Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Serhii Plokhy

What Is NASA?

What Is NASA?

Sarah Fabiny

Galactic Patrol

Galactic Patrol

E.E. 'Doc' Smith

Destination Mars

Destination Mars

Andrew May

The Challenger Launch Decision Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA, Enlarged Edition

The Challenger Launch Decision Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA, Enlarged Edition

Diane Vaughan

Moonshot! Game-Changing Strategies to Build Billion-Dollar Businesses

Moonshot! Game-Changing Strategies to Build Billion-Dollar Businesses

John Scully

The Invention of Science

The Invention of Science

David Wootton

The Hunt for Vulcan

The Hunt for Vulcan

Thomas Levenson

Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth

Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth

Michael Silverstein

Command and Control

Command and Control

Glimpse A Science Fiction Novel

Glimpse A Science Fiction Novel

John Russell Fearn

A Little History of Science

A Little History of Science

William F. Bynum

Three things you need to know about rockets

Three things you need to know about rockets

Jessica Abel

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Martian Chronicles

The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury

From the Earth to the Moon / Around the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon / Around the Moon

Jules Verne

Another Science Fiction

Another Science Fiction

Megan Prelinger

Ignition City 1

Ignition City 1

Warren Ellis

Galileo's dream

Galileo's dream

Kim Stanley Robinson

Penguin Classics the Black Cloud

Penguin Classics the Black Cloud

Fred Hoyle

Failure Is Not an Option Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

Failure Is Not an Option Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

Gene Kranz

red mars

red mars

Kim Stanley Robinsom

Schild's ladder

Schild's ladder

First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

James R. Hansen

The Right Stuff

The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe

The sunborn

The sunborn

Gregory Benford

A Short History of Progress

A Short History of Progress

Ronald Wright

A Brief History Of Science

A Brief History Of Science

Thomas P. Crumpler

The Precipice

The Precipice

Ben Bova

Entering Space

Entering Space

Robert Zubrin

American Genesis A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970

American Genesis A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970

Thomas Parke Hughes

The Man Who Sold the Moon

The Man Who Sold the Moon

Robert A. Heinlein

Not In Solitude

Not In Solitude

Kenneth F.

The Atomic Age Opens

The Atomic Age Opens

Donald Porter Geddes (red.)

The bomber mafia

The bomber mafia

Malcolm Gladwell

Moondust

Moondust

Andrew Smith