Interview with Charles Bartley / by John F. Bluth, 1994 October 3 and 4.

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Interview with Charles Bartley / by John F. Bluth, 1994 October 3 and 4.

Charles Bartley begins the two day interview with John F. Bluth by describing how he came to work in the rocket industry and his work with solid fuels at GALCIT. After leaving JPL, Bartley went on to establish several major companies such as Grand Central Rocket and Rocket Power Inc. He narrates his career chronologically, adding anecdotes and explaining what it was like to be an aeronautical engineer from the 1940s to the 1970s.

transcript : 180 p.7 audio cassette(s) (6 hours, 45 min) : analog, mono.

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