Object Details
- Summary
- This is a World War I signal rocket and was fired from a rocket tube to a height of 1,000-1,200 feet. The signal cartridge payload was then automatically ignited and ejected and slowly lowered by a parachute so that the signal burned for about 30-40 seconds. This specimen is marked "Green" on its label and therefore had a green signal.
- Signal rockets and resembled ordinary firework rockets and used gunpowder. This specimen has a guidestick socket but lacks its long wooden guidestick. The green light conveyed certain signals by pre-arranged codes. Signals included commands like "Advance to the right (or left)," and so forth. This object was donated to the Smithsonian in 1996 from the U.S. Army Ordnance Museum.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from U.S. Department of the Army, U.S. Ordnance Museum, Aberdeen, Maryland.
- Inventory Number
- A19960020000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- CRAFT-Missiles & Rockets
- Materials
- Overall, pasteboard known as strawboard; Kraft paper also used; parachute, possibly cotton
- Dimensions
- Other: 2 1/4 in. diameter x 1 ft. 7 in. long x 3 in. wide (5.72 x 48.3 x 7.6cm)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
- Exhibit Station
- Rockets & Missiles
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19960020000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv966aab727-d3e7-49b3-958f-542c2fe2b7da
