Surviving Rockets
A wide variety of Congreve rockets, ranging in size from 3 to 300 pounds (1.4 to 140 kg), are displayed at Firepower - The Royal Artillery Museum in South-East London. The Science Museum has two eighteenth-century Indian war rockets in its collection. The Musée national de la Marine in Paris also features one rocket. The Stonington Historical Society in Stontington Connecticut has one rocket in their collection that was fired at the town by the British in August 1814 during the Battle of Stonington.
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Famous quotes containing the words surviving and/or rockets:
“For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes to natural objects. I was so absorbed in him as to be surprised whenever I detected the routine of the natural world surviving still, or met persons going about their affairs indifferent.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The Thirties dreamed white marble and slipstream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze, but the rockets on the Gernsback pulps had fallen on London in the dead of night, screaming. After the war, everyone had a car—no wings for it—and the promised superhighway to drive it down, so that the sky itself darkened, and the fumes ate the marble and pitted the miracle crystal.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)