page_title: Conrad Haas
hierarchical_section_title: Conrad Haas
caption_attribution_description: English: Description of a rocket by Conrad Haas, a german master gunner. Deutsch: Darstellung einer frühen Rakete, entworfen vom königlichen kaiserlichen Zeugmeister Conrad Haas zu Hermannstadt
context_page_description: Conrad Haas was an Austrian or a Transylvanian Saxon military engineer from the Kingdom of Hungary, Transylvania.
  He was a pioneer of rocket propulsion. His designs include a three-stage rocket and a manned rocket.
  Haas was perhaps born in Dornbach.
  He held the post of the Zeugwart of the Imperial Habsburg army under Ferdinand I.
  In 1551, Stephen Báthory, the grand prince of Transylvania invited Haas to Hermannstadt, Eastern Hungarian Kingdom, where he acted as weapons engineer and also he started to teach at Klausenburg.
  He wrote a German-language treatise on rocket technology, involving the combination of fireworks and weapons technologies. This manuscript was discovered in 1961, in the Sibiu public records.
  His work also dealt with the theory of motion of multi-stage rockets, different fuel mixtures using liquid fuel, and introduced delta-shape fins and bell-shaped nozzles.
  In the last paragraph of his chapter on the military use of rockets, he wrote:
context_section_description: Conrad Haas (1509–1576) was an Austrian or a Transylvanian Saxon military engineer from the Kingdom of Hungary, Transylvania.
  He was a pioneer of rocket propulsion. His designs include a three-stage rocket and a manned rocket.
  Haas was perhaps born in Dornbach (now part of Hernals, Vienna). 
  He held the post of the Zeugwart (arsenal master) of the Imperial Habsburg army under Ferdinand I. 
  In 1551, Stephen Báthory, the grand prince of Transylvania invited Haas to Hermannstadt, Eastern Hungarian Kingdom (now Sibiu, Romania), where he acted as weapons engineer and also he started to teach at Klausenburg (now Cluj-Napoca).
  He wrote a German-language treatise on rocket technology, involving the combination of fireworks and weapons technologies. This manuscript was discovered in 1961, in the Sibiu public records (Sibiu public records Varia II 374).
  His work also dealt with the theory of motion of multi-stage rockets, different fuel mixtures using liquid fuel, and introduced delta-shape fins and bell-shaped nozzles.
  In the last paragraph of his chapter on the military use of rockets, he wrote (translated):
  "But my advice is for more peace and no war, leaving the rifles calmly in storage, so the bullet is not fired, the gunpowder is not burned or wet, so the prince keeps his money, the arsenal master his life; that is the advice Conrad Haas gives."
  Johann Schmidlap, a German fireworks maker, is believed to have experimented with staging in 1590, using a design he called "step rockets." Before the discovery of Haas' manuscript, the first description of the three-stage rocket was credited to the artillery specialist Kazimierz Siemienowicz m frothe Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, in his 1650 work, Artis Magnae Artilleriae Pars Prima ("Great Art of Artillery, Part One").
caption: Description of a rocket by Conrad Haas
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