This month in Model Rocketry History July 1958
7/1/58 Orv H. Carlisle receives patent # 2,841,084 on "Toy Rocket"
http://www.google.com/patents?id=zQ...EBAJ&dq=2841084
7/58 MMI Ad in American Modeler magazine Kit 001-C featured 6 Rock-A-Chutes for $2.95; 3 for $1.50; 1st ad to say Safety Certfied by NAR
7/58 Vernon Estes(NAR #380) starts work on creating "MABEL-1", the worlds first automated model rocket motor machine.
7/29/58 "National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958," Public Law #85-568, 72 Stat., 426. Signed by the President on July 29, 1958
7/58 G. Harry Stines address AMA about starting Model Rocketry program; they decline.
Amateur Rocketry Headlines
7/58 LA Times Teacher Hits Rocket-Type 'Experiments' A high school science and math instructor this week indicted "kid rocketry" as dangerous and useless
7/58 X NY Times JERSEY BOY IS KILLED TESTING TOY ROCKET; TEANECK, N. J., July 30 -- Merrill Poliakoff, 11 years old, was killed here this afternoon while experimenting with rocket propulsion on a toy automobile
7/58 X Washington Post 11-Year-Old Science Prodigy Killed By Home-Made 'Space' Rocket; TEANECK, N.J., July 30 An 11-year-old child prodigy in science who dreamed of the day when he would fly into outer space was killed here today when a home-made rocket charge exploded and ripped into his chest.
7/58 Electronics Illustrated Lt. Col. Charles M. Parkins "Build A Safe Model Missile" Part 1 of 4
7/26/58 26 July 1958: Orbited Explorer-IV satellite weighing 37.16 pounds with 25.76 pounds of payload, perigee 163 miles, apogee 1,373 miles.
attached are the 1st 2 pages from the Amateur Rocketry article from above
terry dean