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sábado, 8 de junio de 2019 a las 8:23
Objeto n°781050428
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Friedrich Schmiedl was born on 14.05.1902 in Schwertberg in Upper Austria. At the age of five, he launched his first rockets at a garden party and has been fascinated by rockets ever since. He graduated from elementary school, the k. k. Staatsgymnasium and the building trade school in Salzburg. When Russians besieged Premysl in World War I, he proposed in vain to the Imperial and Royal Army High Command the use of post rockets instead of small unreliable balloons. In numerous rocket launches on the Gigerwiese on the Mönchsberg, the student determined the most favourable launch angles. In 1918 Schmiedl tested a rocket helicopter, in 1919 on the Geiereck at Untersberg the bundling and gradual ignition of fireworks. In 1921 Schmiedl began studying chemistry, natural sciences and philosophy at both the Technical University and the University of Graz. Two of his professors received the Nobel Prize. Together with Viktor Hess, the discoverer of space radiation, he investigated the changes in the genetic material of plants both by irradiation and by accelerations up to six times the acceleration due to gravity. The chemist Fritz Pregl studied metabolism, hormones and enzymes. In 1922 Schmiedl built a vacuum test stand to show critics that the recoil principle also works in a vacuum. He corresponded with Albert Einstein, Hermann Oberth, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Willy Ley, Auguste Piccard, Guido von Pirquet and many others. The Austrian rocket pioneer regarded the supply of mail to remote mountain farms and refuges as the first step that could be financed by a lone fighter. After his studies, the civil engineer decided to live as a freelance researcher and inventor in Graz. He earned his living by examining concrete.
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