{"id":4774,"date":"2025-07-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4774"},"modified":"2025-07-05T11:42:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T16:42:40","slug":"july-7-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4774","title":{"rendered":"July 7, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On July 7, 1914, Robert H. Goddard received U.S. Patent No. 1,102,653 on a Rocket Apparatus (the first multistage rocket):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"577\" height=\"831\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-8.png 577w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-8-208x300.png 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robert Hutchings Goddard was born October 5, 1882, recognized for his pioneering work in the field of rocketry.  His early work dramatically improved the efficiency of solid-fueled rockets, and he moved on to build the world&#8217;s first liquid-fueled rocket, which he successfully launched on March 16, 1926.  Two of his 214 patents covered a multi-stage rocket (U.S. Patent No. 1,102,653), and a liquid-fuel rocket (U.S. patent 1,103,503) &#8212; important milestones toward spaceflight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center was named in his honor, and he is a member of the International Aerospace Hall of Fame, the National Aviation Hall of Fame, and the International Space Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 7, 1914, Robert H. Goddard received U.S. Patent No. 1,102,653 on a Rocket Apparatus (the first multistage rocket): Robert Hutchings Goddard was born October 5, 1882, recognized for his pioneering work in the field of rocketry. His early &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4774\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patent-of-the-day"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4776,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774\/revisions\/4776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}