History
This equation was independently derived by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky towards the end of the 19th century and is widely known under his name or as the 'ideal rocket equation'. However, a recently discovered pamphlet "A Treatise on the Motion of Rockets" by William Moore shows that the earliest known derivation of this kind of equation was in fact at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich in England in 1813, and was used for weapons research.
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