LIFESAVING ROCKET
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| By 1870, American and British inventors had found other ways to use rockets. For example, the Congreve rocket was capable of carrying a line over 1,000 feet to a stranded ship. In 1914, an estimated 1,000 lives were saved by this technique. (Reproduced from a painting by Charles Hubbell and presented here courtesy of TRW Inc.and Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio.) |