en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rockets#World_War_II
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during the mid 18th century
This date range is wrong. A rocket developed in 1805 belongs to the early 19th century, not the mid-18th century.
Full reasoning
The sentence itself ties the Congreve rocket to 1805, which is chronologically in the early 19th century. Independent museum sources on Congreve rockets describe them as an early 19th-century British development and date Congreve’s work to 1801 and the early 1800s, not the mid-1700s.
So the phrase “during the mid 18th century” is incorrect in this context; it should refer to the early 19th century instead.
2 sources
- Congreve's Rocket | Royal Artillery Museum
This Congreve rocket is one of several in our collection, representing a key development in early 19th-century artillery. Designed in 1801 by British inventor Sir William Congreve...
- Rockets and Missiles | Royal Artillery Museum
This technology was further developed in Britain during the early 1800s... Congreve Rockets were used during the Napoleonic wars... In 1801 British inventor Sir William Congreve designed a rocket...