Pedro Eleodoro Paulet Mostajo, Peruvian astronautical engineer (Tiabaya, near of Arequipa 02 July 1874 – Buenos Aires 30 January 1945)

DESIGNED

Designed and built the first liquid fuel rocket engine

A reaction engine for rocket propulsion known as Paulet engine (1897)

Girandula propulsion system for rockets (1900)

An early spaceship prototype named Avion-Torpedo (1902)

Proposed the nuclear-propelled rockets (1927) and a new thermoelectric power system for common use (1930)

HONORS

Asteroid Paulet 4443

LINKS

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/winter01/paulet.html