History of rockets | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-29

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00:01:39 1 China
00:03:59 2 Spread of rocket technology
00:04:09 2.1 Mongols
00:04:44 2.2 Middle East
00:06:27 2.3 India
00:06:49 2.4 Korea
00:07:20 2.5 Europe
00:08:04 3 Adoption in Renaissance-era Europe
00:10:38 4 Early modern history
00:11:19 4.1 Siemienowicz
00:12:35 4.2 Indian Mysorean rockets
00:13:44 5 19th-century gunpowder rocket artillery
00:18:18 6 Early 20th-century rocket pioneers
00:23:32 7 Modern rocketry
00:23:41 7.1 Pre-World War II
00:28:40 7.2 World War II
00:31:20 7.3 Post World War II
00:36:13 7.4 Cold War
00:38:38 7.5 Market competition
00:40:41 8 See also



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The first rockets were used as propulsion systems for arrows, and may have appeared as early as the 10th century in Song dynasty China. However more solid documentary evidence does not appear until the 13th century. The technology probably spread across Eurasia in the wake of the Mongol invasions of the mid-13th century. Usage of rockets as weapons before modern rocketry is attested in China, Korea, Europe, Middle East, 
Mongolia and Indian subcontinent. One of the first recorded rocket launchers is the "wasp nest" fire arrow launcher produced by the Ming dynasty in 1380. In Europe rockets were also used in the same year at the Battle of Chioggia. The Joseon kingdom of Korea used a type of mobile multiple rocket launcher known as the "Munjong Hwacha" by 1451. Iron-cased rockets, known as Mysorean rockets, were developed in Kingdom of Mysore by the mid 18th century by Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan, the rockets were inspired by the Chinese and Mongolian rockets which existed much earlier as no such recorded use of rockets exist anywhere else in the Indian subcontinent prior to that of Mysorean rockets, and were later copied by the British. The later models and improvements were known as the Congreve rocket and used in the Napoleonic Wars.