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Reinhold Tiling

Reinhold Tiling is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Reinhold Tiling rather than just read about it. In short: Reinhold Tiling (13 June 1893 – 11 October 1933) was a German engineer, pilot and rocket pioneer. A flier in the First World War and later flight director of an Osnabrück airfield, he took up rocketry in the late 1920s and built solid-propellant rockets, patenting a "chamber rocket" in 1928.

Key takeaways

Reinhold Tiling belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Reinhold Tiling to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Reinhold Tiling from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Reinhold Tiling (13 June 1893 – 11 October 1933) was a German engineer, pilot and rocket pioneer. A flier in the First World War and later flight director of an Osnabrück airfield, he took up rocketry in the late 1920s and built solid-propellant rockets, patenting a "chamber rocket" in 1928. In 1931 he launched what has been called the first German postal rocket. Tiling died in 1933 of burns suffered when powder exploded in his rocket workshop near Bad Essen; the lunar crater Tiling is named after him.

Biography

Tiling was born on 13 June 1893 in Absberg, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, and served as a pilot during the First World War. In 1926 he became flight director and technical manager of the Netterheide airfield in Osnabrück. Tiling took up rocketry in the late 1920s, registering a patent in 1928 for a solid-propellant chamber rocket (Kammerrakete) and another for a "rocket aircraft with swing-out wings" intended to glide back to the ground after flight. With financial backing from Baron Gisbert von Ledebur, Tiling carried out his research between 1929 and 1933 at the Arenshorst estate near Bad Essen. He launched his first rocket at Meppen in the summer of 1929, after many failed attempts. On 15 April 1931, at the Dümmer, he launched what the state archive of Lower Saxony describes as the first German postal rocket; one of his rockets carried a bundle of 188 numbered and autographed postcards. Tiling became widely known in Germany and gave many public flight demonstrations. He later leased a test site on the island of Wangerooge for further trials. On 10 October 1933, while powder was being pressed to fill a rocket in his workshop at Schloss Arenshorst, overheating set off an explosion. Tiling, his assistant Angela Buddenböhmer and his mechanic Friedrich Kuhr were severely burned and died of their injuries the following day; Tiling died in Osnabrück.

Legacy A memorial stone stands at Arenshorst, and the Reinhold-Tiling-Weg in the Sonnenhügel district of Osnabrück is named after him. In 1970 the lunar crater Tiling, on the far side of the Moon at 53°06′S 132°36′W, was named after him.

See also Rocket mail Friedrich Schmiedl Verein für Raumschiffahrt

References

Further reading Tiling, Klaus; Frauenheim, Martin (2013). Reinhold Tiling: Flieger und Forscher, Erfinder der Kammerrakete (in German). Diepholz: GNT-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86225-106-3. OCLC 842387581.

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Reinhold Tiling

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Reinhold Tiling claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Reinhold Tiling before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Reinhold Tiling ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Reinhold Tiling

In research: Reinhold Tiling appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Reinhold Tiling in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Reinhold Tiling is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1893 births, 1933 deaths, Deaths from laboratory accidents, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Reinhold Tiling outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Reinhold Tiling in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Reinhold Tiling matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Reinhold Tiling?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Reinhold Tiling.