Posted on 06/13/2005 5:44:28 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Paul G. Allen's first foray into rocketry, as he recalls it, was inauspicious.
"My cousin and I tried to build a rocket out of an aluminum armchair leg," he said. At just 12 years old, the future billionaire raided his chemistry set for zinc and sulfur, and packed the fuel mixture into the tube. He got the formula right, but had not looked up the melting point of aluminum.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Well, we can't get it right on the first time can we?
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