By Karen McGuire!
ROCKET PROJECT
History of Rockets
History!! The history of rocket vehicles goes back to the 13th
century in China. From there developments occurred in Mongolia, India, Britain, America and Russia among many others. The first date we know true rockets were used was the year 1232. However it is believed possible that the Chinese had primitive rocket like devices before this. The first rocket like device was invented around 100BC by a Greek named Hero of Alexandria. This device was called an aeolipile. It consisted of a sphere mounted on a water kettle. A fire beneath the kettle turned the water to steam, which then traveled through pipes to the sphere and was expelled through two L-shaped pipes that caused the sphere to rotate.
More history!  Chinese were at war with the Mongols.
During one of the battles, the battle of KaiKeng, the Chinese managed to repel the Mongol invaders by using "arrows of flying fire." These fire-arrows were a simple form of a solid-propellant rocket.
More!!  The first liquid fuel rocket was
developed and launched by an American named Robert H. Goddard in 1926.
 In 1937, a group German engineers and
scientists assembled on the shores of the Baltic Sea in Peenemunde . There, under the directorship of Wernher von Braun, they developed most advanced rocket of its time, the German V-2 Missile .
Dimensioned sketch
Poster
Photos of testing