ROCKET POST
VISION OF THE FUTURE POSSIBILITY DISCUSSED. LONDON, May 4. Postal packets shortly may be sent from Germany to England and from England to the United States by rocket. This astonishing statement was made by Dr Herbert Chatley, when addressing the Society of Engineers. The possibilities of recent discoveries, Dr Chatley said, read like a paraphrase of Jules Verne’s wildest imagination. The work of the German, Gbcrth, and the American, Goodard, showed that a rocket-propelled container might travel beyond the earth’s atmosphere, and even reach the moon, though the return passage was not guaranteed. Societies for the study of rocketpropulsion had been formed in France, Germany, and the United States. The members were not cranks. Their aims might appear to be extremely romantic, but they were sustained by sound logic.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21647, 18 May 1932, Page 9
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131ROCKET POST Otago Daily Times, Issue 21647, 18 May 1932, Page 9
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