Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory

The Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory was started in the same year at the California Institute of Technology for the purpose of studying design fundamentals of solid and liq propulsion systems. A year later, Malina (Ref 4) published a paper on the characteristics of LP motors... 

Golcit(Abbr for Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory, California Institute of Technology). A brief description was given in Vol 1 of Encycl, p A497-R under Asphalt-Perchlorate Castable Propellants, The following may be added ... 

The forerunner of the rocket propellant containing perchlorates as oxidants was the American product, Galcit, developed in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory, at the California Institute of Technology. It consisted of asphalt as a fuel and potassium perchlorate as an oxidant, mixed hot. Originally the material was hot-pressed into rockets. However, at high pressures the flame penetrated between the charge and the walls... 

See CalTech Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa California Institute of Technology/Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory California Institute of Technology/jet Propulsion Laboratory civil... 

Theodor von Kdrmdn departed first, from Aachen. He had pioneered aeronautical physics the California Institute of Technology, then vigorously assembling its future reputation, wanted to include that specialty in its curriculum. Aviation philanthropist Daniel Guggenheim was prevailed upon to contribute. The Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory, with a ten-foot wind tunnel, began operation under von K rmdn s direction in 1930. 

Theodor von Karman (11 May 1881-7 May 1963), smdied 1898-1902 in Budapest, and 1906-1908 in Gottingen, Ph.D. 1908 became Privatdozent in Gottingen in 1910, and was then professor of mechanics (as successor to Arnold Sommerfeld) and aerodynamics at the Aachen T.H. (1913-1933). He became director of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena from 1933 to 1949, where, with his theory of turbulence, he fostered the development of modem variable swept-wing aircraft. 

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