Who built the first rocket?

The first long range ballistic missile was the V-2, which was built by the Germans in 1942 and was used against allied cities during World War II. The US and the USSR used the V-2 as a basis for developing their own large rockets. read more

The inventor of the first rocket is a mystery lost to time, but it’s believed that 9th Century Chinese alchemists invented gunpowder, which eventually led to bombs and rocket-propelled projectiles like cannonballs and arrows as well as the ubiquitous firecrackers. read more

Mysorean rockets. In 1792, the first iron-cased rockets were successfully developed and used by Hyder Ali and his son Tipu Sultan, rulers of the Kingdom of Mysore in India against the larger British East India Company forces during the Anglo-Mysore Wars. read more