The US Navy's R. C. Truax, at Annapolis, Md., developed a number of pioneering early rockets.
Specifications
Truax Chronology
1937 Dec 1 -
Truax first rocket test.
Initial rocket thrust chamber tests by R. C. Truax at Annapolis, Md., using compressed air and gasoline as fuels.
Bibliography:
17 - Emme, Eugene M, Aeronautics and Astronautics: An American Chronology of Science and Technology in the Exploration of Space 1915-1960, NASA, 1961. HTML when accessed: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/timeline.html