Timeline of Rocket and Missile Technology - 19th Century

19th Century

• 1803 - The British Army develops the Congreve rocket based on weapons used against them by Tipu Sultan.

• 1806 - Claude Ruggieri a black Italian living in France launched animals on rockets, and recovered them using parachutes. He was prevented from launching a child by police. His rockets were capable of launching rams.

• 1813 - "A Treatise on the Motion of Rockets" by William Moore – first appearance of the rocket equation

• 1865 - Jules Verne publishes From the Earth to the Moon as a humorous science fantasy story about a space gun launching a manned spacecraft equipped with rockets for landing on the Moon, but eventually used for another orbital maneuver.