$40 QUESTION -- Category: Powerful Names

Who patented a liquid-fuel rocket -- what was later called a rocket motor -- in 1914?

  1. Professor Robert Goddard of Worchester, Massachusetts.

  2. Dr. Bartholomew "Buck" Rogers, from Houston, Texas.

  3. Jim "Powerhouse" Lowell of Pasadena, California. The firm "JPL" is named after him.

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