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of powder could travel almost 1000 yard. In contrast, rockets in Europe were not iron cased and could not take large chamber pressures, limiting their reach.

William Congreve

Congreve, who knew of the Mysore rockets but later claimed not to have based his design on them, started developing rockets in 1804 by buying the best rockets on the London market, but found that their greatest range was only 600 yards. After spending several hundred pounds of his own money on

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