From: Paul Thompson <MrApol@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 08:51:22 -0500 (EST)
Fwd Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 09:08:44 -0500
Subject: Re: 1909 Travel to Mars


Hermann Ganswindt was a German inventor, a bit of a crank, who
made a career out of harassing German officials to buy his
inventions. He did design a reaction-powered spacecraft (an
outgrowth of his design for a dirigible).

The Viennese magazine Der Zeit, No. 304, July 28, 1900, carried
an article about Ganswindt's space travel ideas, written by
Prof. Dr. Roman Baron von Gostkowski, dean of the College of
Engineering at the University of Lemberg.

More about Ganswindt can be found in Willy Ley's book "Rockets,
Missiles, and Space Travel," Viking Press, 1954.

Paul Thompson

ParaScope