Comments on: Pedro Paulet and the Peruvian rocket-plane

By: Ian Freeman

Ian Freeman — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 06:19:57 +0000

Claiming Paulet invented nearly everything from the liquid fuel rocket motor to a nuclear drive is somewhat over the top. Paulet experimented with an “explosion” engine, not a true rocket motor.

And it never left the ground – Goddard’s did.

As for his revolutionary “aircraft” he didn’t “invent it” he conceptualised a device that he imagined would fly. About the same as Gene Rodenbury conceptualised the warp drive for the starship Enterprise. He didn’t invent one, he just described it.

I also notice that Boeing or Airbus haven’t picked up on such a revolutionary concept…I wonder why?

I must rush, I have to go finish designing my Time Machine…

By: Diego Berrocal

Diego Berrocal — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:23:25 +0000

This post is awesome, I just can’t imagine the amount of hard work of this man to be not recognised by more peruvian people, I’m peruvian myself, and now I know that not only Europe scientist were awesome, we had very smart scientist here, we ought to keep developing science in Peru.

By: VicMan

VicMan — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:12:28 +0000

We have a lot of this stories. One of those was about the car made by the engineer Grieve. Another not very known story about lack of support and frustration was the case of The peruvian engineer Santiago Antunez de Mayolo who presented a theory about energy in the Third Pan-American Scientific Congress held in Lima in 1924. “Hypothesis about the Constitution of Matter”. He proposed the existence of a neutral element in the atom.
But the British experimental physicist James Chadwick was awarded with the Nobel Prize because He confirmed in 1932 what Antunez de Mayolo discovered in 1924, the Neutron.
The prize and the glory went to the wrong person.

Another example of this is the case of the tennis player Alex Olmedo. The only one latin american player who won Wimbledon and the first latin american of only two who won the Australian
Open. He is peruvian but because He was invited in 1958 to play the Davis Cup for The U.S.A. national team and they were champions of the tournament. The U.S.A. flag appeared in Wimbledon and the Australian open when He won and still now but He was resident and no citizen of U.S.A. those years. should be the peruvian flag then.

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By: NefariousDrO

NefariousDrO — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:59:02 +0000

Unfortunately, history is replete with people of vision who, for many reasons, didn’t get the chance to adequately pursue their innovative ideas. While he may indeed have conceived of these ideas long before others, he was largely unpublished, even, so his ideas didn’t fall on the fertile ground to take root. I suspect this probably has been the case through the whole of human history, right back to the very beginnings of stone tools, even. He was a dreamer, and obviously a brilliant mind. It is sad that he didn’t get to take his ideas as far as he’d desired, and they had to be re-discovered elsewhere.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:16:46 +0000

You always find the most fascinating Peruvian history. Paulet had a similar experience to Nikola Tesla. It is speculated that Tesla’s designs and discoveries were the predecessor of the cellular phone. Unfortunately Paulet and Tesla did not receive the full credit that was due to them.

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By: Rob Dover

Rob Dover — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:11:59 +0000

Fascinating – great article.

By: mas73

mas73 — Tue, 18 May 2010 01:50:31 +0000

Wow nice Peruvian history lesson!