Rocket Pump, Liquid Fuel, R.H. Goddard
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Dr. Robert H. Goddard
notes: label: Summary
content: This is a centrifugal pump designed and made by U.S. rocket pioneer Robert H. Goddard for forcing the propellants into the combustion chamber of a rocket motor. Most likely its dates from ca. 1938-1941, when he worked at his test site at Roswell, New Mexico, on his so-called P-Series, or pump series of rocket motors. The object was donated to the Smithsonian by the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation for the Promotion of Aeronautics in 1985.
place: label: Country of Origin
content: United States of America
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Air and Space Museum Collection
label: Location
content: National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
label: Exhibition
content: Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Daniel & Florence Guggeneheim Foundation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Air and Space Museum
identifier: label: Inventory Number
content: A19850181000
objectType: label: Type
content: PROPULSION-Rocket Engines
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Materials
content: Steel rotor, bolts, and pipe projecting from bottom; threaded alumninum shaft at end; some copper components also
label: Dimensions
content: 3-D: 31.5 × 23 × 18cm, 3.7kg (12 3/8 × 9 1/16 × 7 1/16 in., 8 3/16lb.)