Shield and rocket: what they have in common
- Step 1. Shield — is made of — Leather. Leather on a wooden base.
- Step 2. Leather — is material for — Fire pump. The hoses were sewn from leather.
- Step 3. Fire pump — evolved into — Fire truck. A pump on a motor-vehicle chassis.
- Step 4. Fire truck — has part — Centrifugal pump. A fire pump.
- Step 5. Centrifugal pump — is part of — Liquid-propellant rocket engine. Turbopumps deliver the propellant.
- Step 6. Liquid-propellant rocket engine — evolved from — Rocket. Goddard switched to liquid fuel.