What invention is the game man famous for. Great Soviet inventions that changed the world

Radio, television, the first artificial satellite, color photography and much more are inscribed in the history of Russian inventions. These discoveries marked the beginning of the phenomenal development of various fields in the field of science and technology. Of course, everyone knows some of these stories, because sometimes they become almost more famous than the inventions themselves, while others remain in the shadow of their loud neighbors.

1. Electric car

The modern world is hard to imagine without cars. Of course, more than one mind had a hand in the invention of this transport, but in improving the machine and bringing it to its current state, the number of participants is increasing many times, geographically gathering together the whole world. But separately we will note Ippolit Vladimirovich Romanov, since he owns the invention of the world's first electric car. In 1899, in St. Petersburg, an engineer presented a four-wheeled carriage designed to carry two passengers. Among the features of this invention, it can be noted that the diameter of the front wheels significantly exceeded the diameter of the rear ones. The maximum speed was 39 km / h, but a very complex recharging system made it possible to travel only 60 km at this speed. This electric car became the forefather of the trolleybus known to us.

2. Monorail

And today, monorails make a futuristic impression, so you can imagine how incredible by the standards of 1820 was the “road on poles”, invented by Ivan Kirillovich Elmanov. A horse-drawn trolley moved along a bar, which was mounted on small supports. To Elmanov's great regret, there was no philanthropist who was interested in the invention, because of which he had to abandon the idea. And only 70 years later the monorail was built in Gatchina, St. Petersburg province.

3. Electric motor

Boris Semenovich Jacobi, an architect by education, at the age of 33, while in Koenigsberg, became interested in the physics of charged particles, and in 1834 he made a discovery - an electric motor operating on the principle of rotation of the working shaft. Instantly, Jacobi becomes famous in scientific circles, and among many invitations for further education and development, he chooses St. Petersburg University. So, together with Academician Emil Khristianovich Lenz, he continued to work on the electric motor, creating two more options. The first was designed for a boat and rotated the paddle wheels. With the help of this engine, the ship easily kept afloat, moving even against the current of the Neva River. And the second electric motor was the prototype of a modern tram and rolled a man in a cart along the rails. Among Jacobi's inventions, electroplating can also be noted - a process that allows you to create perfect copies of the original object. This discovery was widely used to decorate interiors, houses and much more. Among the merits of the scientist is also the creation of underground and underwater cables. Boris Jacobi became the author of about a dozen designs of telegraph devices, and in 1850 he invented the world's first direct-printing telegraph device, which worked on the principle of synchronous movement. This device was recognized as one of the greatest achievements of electrical engineering in the middle of the 19th century.

4. Color photography

If earlier everything that happened tried to get on paper, now all life is aimed at obtaining a photograph. Therefore, without this invention, which has become part of the small but rich history of photography, we would not have seen such a “reality”. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky developed a special camera and introduced his brainchild to the world in 1902. This camera was capable of taking three shots of the same image, each shot through three completely different light filters: red, green, and blue. And the patent received by the inventor in 1905 can be considered, without exaggeration, the beginning of the era of color photography in Russia. This invention is becoming much better than the achievements of foreign chemists, which is an important fact in view of the massive interest in photography around the world.

5. Bicycle

It is generally accepted that all information about the invention of the bicycle before 1817 is doubtful. The history of Efim Mikheevich Artamonov also enters this period. The Ural serf inventor made the first bike ride around 1800 from the Ural worker of the Tagil factory settlement to Moscow, the distance was about two thousand miles. For his invention, Efim was granted freedom from serfdom. But this story remains a legend, while the patent of the German professor Baron Karl von Dres from 1818 is a historical fact.

6. Telegraph

Mankind has always been looking for ways to transfer information as quickly as possible from one source to another. Fire, smoke from a campfire, various combinations of sound signals helped people transmit distress signals and other emergency messages. The development of this process is undoubtedly one of the most important tasks facing the world. The first electromagnetic telegraph was created by the Russian scientist Pavel Lvovich Schilling in 1832, presenting it in his apartment. He came up with a certain combination of symbols, each of which corresponded to a letter of the alphabet. This combination appeared on the apparatus as black or white circles.

7. Incandescent lamp

If you pronounce "incandescent lamp", then the name of Edison immediately sounds in your head. Yes, this invention is no less famous than the name of its inventor. However, a relatively small number of people know that Edison did not invent the lamp, but only improved it. Whereas Alexander Nikolaevich Lodygin, being a member of the Russian Technical Society, in 1870 proposed the use of tungsten filaments in lamps, twisting them into a spiral. Of course, the history of the invention of the lamp is not the result of the work of one scientist - rather, it is a series of successive discoveries that were in the air and were needed by the world, but it was the contribution of Alexander Lodygin that became especially great.

8. Radio receiver

The question of who is the inventor of the radio is debatable. Almost every country has its own scientist, who is credited with the creation of this device. So, in Russia, this scientist is Alexander Stepanovich Popov, in whose favor many weighty arguments are given. On May 7, 1895, the reception and transmission of radio signals at a distance were demonstrated for the first time. And the author of this demonstration was Popov. He was not only the first to put the receiver into practice, but also the first to send a radiogram. Both events occurred before the patent of Marconi, who is considered the inventor of the radio.

9. Television

The discovery and widespread use of television broadcasting has radically changed the way information is disseminated in society. Boris Lvovich Rosing was also involved in this most powerful achievement, who in July 1907 filed an application for the invention of the "Method of electrical transmission of images over distances." Boris Lvovich managed to successfully transmit and receive an accurate image on the screen of the still simplest device, which was the prototype of the kinescope of a modern television, which the scientist called the "electric telescope". Among those who helped Rosing with experience was Vladimir Zworykin, then a student of the St. 1911.

10. Parachute

Gleb Evgenievich Kotelnikov was an actor in the troupe of the People's House on the Petersburg Side. Then, impressed by the death of the pilot, Kotelnikov began to develop a parachute. Before Kotelnikov, the pilots escaped with the help of long folded "umbrellas" fixed on the plane. Their design was very unreliable, besides, they greatly increased the weight of the aircraft. Therefore, they were rarely used. Gleb Evgenievich proposed his completed project of a backpack parachute in 1911. But, despite successful tests, the inventor did not receive a patent in Russia. The second attempt was more successful, and in 1912 in France, his discovery received legal force. But even this fact did not help the parachute to start wide production in Russia because of the fears of the head of the Russian air forces, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, that the aviators would leave the airplane at the slightest malfunction. And only in 1924 he finally receives a domestic patent, and later transfers all rights to use his invention to the government.

11. Movie camera

In 1893, working together with the physicist Lyubimov, Iosif Andreevich Timchenko created the so-called "snail" - a special mechanism with which it was possible to intermittently change the sequence of frames in the stroboscope. This mechanism later formed the basis of the kinetoscope, which Timchenko is developing together with the engineer Freidenberg. The kinetoscope was demonstrated the following year at a congress of Russian doctors and natural scientists. Two tapes were shown: "The Spear Thrower" and "The Galloping Horseman", which were filmed at the Odessa Hippodrome. This event is even documented. So, in the minutes of the section meeting it says: “Representatives of the meeting got acquainted with the invention of Mr. Timchenko with interest. And, in accordance with the proposals of two professors, we decided to express our gratitude to Mr. Timchenko.”

12. Automatic

Since 1913, the inventor Vladimir Grigorievich Fedorov began work, consisting in testing an automatic rifle (firing in bursts) chambered for 6.5 mm, which was the fruit of his development. Three years later, soldiers of the 189th Izmail regiment are already armed with such rifles. But the serial production of machine guns was launched only after the end of the revolution. The weapons of the designer were in service with the domestic army until 1928. But, according to some reports, during the Winter War with Finland, the troops still used some copies of the Fedorov assault rifle.

13. Laser

The history of the invention of the laser began with the name of Einstein, who created the theory of the interaction of radiation with matter. At the same time, Alexei Tolstoy, in his famous novel The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin, wrote about the same thing. Until 1955, attempts to create a laser were not successful. And only thanks to two Russian physicists - N.G. Basov and A.M. Prokhorov, who developed a quantum generator, the laser began its history in practice. In 1964, Basov and Prokhorov received the Nobel Prize in Physics.

14. Artificial heart

The name of Vladimir Petrovich Demikhov is associated with more than one operation, which was performed for the first time. Surprisingly, Demikhov was not a doctor - he was a biologist. In 1937, as a third-year student of the biological faculty of Moscow State University, he created a mechanical heart and put it in a dog instead of a real one. The dog lived with the prosthesis for about three hours. After the war, Demikhov got a job at the Institute of Surgery of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR and created a small experimental laboratory there, in which he began to engage in research on organ transplantation. Already in 1946, he was the first in the world to perform a heart transplant from one dog to another. In the same year, he also performed the first transplant of a heart and lung into a dog at the same time. And most importantly, Demikhov's dogs lived with transplanted hearts for several days. It was a real breakthrough in cardiovascular surgery.

15. Anesthesia

Since ancient times, mankind has dreamed of getting rid of pain. This was especially true of treatment, which was sometimes more painful than the disease itself. Herbs, strong drinks only dulled the symptoms, but did not allow serious actions accompanied by serious pain. This significantly hindered the development of medicine. Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov, the great Russian surgeon, to whom the world owes many important discoveries, made a huge contribution to anesthesiology. In 1847 he summarized his experiments in a monograph on anesthesia, which was published throughout the world. Three years later, for the first time in the history of medicine, he began to operate on the wounded with ether anesthesia in the field. In total, the great surgeon performed about 10,000 operations under ether anesthesia. Also, Nikolai Ivanovich is the author of topographic anatomy, which has no analogues in the world.

16. Plane Mozhaisky

Many minds around the world worked to solve the most difficult problems in the development of the aircraft. Numerous drawings, theories and even test designs did not give a practical result - the plane did not lift a person into the air. The talented Russian inventor Alexander Fedorovich Mozhaisky was the first in the world to create a full-size aircraft. Having studied the works of his predecessors, he developed and supplemented them using his theoretical knowledge and practical experience. His results fully resolved the issues of his time and, despite the very unfavorable situation, namely the lack of actual opportunities in material and technical terms, Mozhaisky was able to find the strength to complete the construction of the world's first aircraft. It was a creative feat that forever glorified our Motherland. But the surviving documentary materials, unfortunately, do not allow us to give a description of the aircraft of A.F. Mozhaisky and its tests in the necessary detail.

17. Aerodynamics

Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky developed the theoretical foundations of aviation and methods for calculating aircraft - and this was at a time when the builders of the first aircraft claimed that “an aircraft is not a machine, it cannot be calculated”, and most of all they hoped for experience, practice and their intuition. In 1904, Zhukovsky discovered the law that determines the lift force of an aircraft wing, determined the main profiles of the wings and propeller blades of an aircraft; developed the vortex theory of the propeller.

18. Atomic and hydrogen bomb

Academician Igor Vasilievich Kurchatov occupies a special place in the science of the twentieth century and in the history of our country. He, an outstanding physicist, plays an exceptional role in the development of scientific and scientific-technical problems of mastering nuclear energy in the Soviet Union. The solution of this most difficult task, the creation of a nuclear shield of the Motherland in a short time in one of the most dramatic periods in the history of our country, the development of problems of the peaceful use of nuclear energy was the main business of his life. It was under his leadership that the most terrible weapon of the post-war period was created and successfully tested in 1949. Without the right to make a mistake, otherwise - execution ... And already in 1961, a group of nuclear physicists from the Kurchatov laboratory created the most powerful explosive device in the entire history of mankind - the AN 602 hydrogen bomb, which was immediately assigned the quite appropriate historical name - “Tsar Bomb ". When this bomb was tested, the seismic wave resulting from the explosion circled the globe three times.

19. Rocket and space technology and practical astronautics

The name of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev characterizes one of the brightest pages in the history of our state - the era of space exploration. The first artificial satellite of the Earth, the first manned flight into space, the first spacewalk by an astronaut, the long-term work of the orbital station and much more is directly related to the name of Academician Korolev, the first Chief Designer of Rocket and Space Systems. From 1953 to 1961, every day Korolev was scheduled by the minute: at the same time he worked on projects for a manned spacecraft, an artificial satellite and an intercontinental rocket. October 4, 1957 was a great day for world cosmonautics: after that, the satellite flew through Soviet pop culture for another 30 years and even registered in the Oxford Dictionary as “sputnik”. Well, about what happened on April 12, 1961, it’s enough to say “man in space”, because almost every one of our compatriots knows what it is about.

20. Mi series helicopters

During the Great Patriotic War, Academician Mil worked in the evacuation in the village of Bilimbay, mainly engaged in the improvement of combat aircraft, improving their stability and controllability. His work was marked by five government awards. In 1943, Mil defended his Ph.D. thesis "Criteria for the controllability and maneuverability of an aircraft"; in 1945 - a doctorate: "The dynamics of a rotor with hinged blades and its application to the problems of stability and controllability of an autogyro and a helicopter." In December 1947, M. L. Mil became the chief designer of an experimental design bureau for helicopter construction. After a series of tests at the beginning of 1950, a decision was issued to create an experimental series of 15 GM-1 helicopters under the designation Mi-1.

21. Aircraft of Andrey Tupolev

Andrei Tupolev's design bureau developed more than 100 types of aircraft, 70 of which were mass-produced in different years. With the participation of his aircraft, 78 world records were set, 28 unique flights were made, including the rescue of the crew of the Chelyuskin steamer with the participation of the ANT-4 aircraft. Non-stop flights by the crews of Valery Chkalov and Mikhail Gromov to the United States via the North Pole were carried out on ANT-25 aircraft. In the scientific expeditions "North Pole" by Ivan Papanin, ANT-25 aircraft were also used. A large number of bombers, torpedo bombers, reconnaissance aircraft designed by Tupolev (TV-1, TV-3, SB, TV-7, MTB-2, TU-2) and torpedo boats G-4, G-5 were used in combat operations in the Great Patriotic War in 1941-1945. In peacetime, among the military and civilian aircraft developed under the leadership of Tupolev were the Tu-4 strategic bomber, the first Soviet Tu-12 jet bomber, the Tu-95 turboprop strategic bomber, the Tu-16 long-range missile carrier bomber, and the Tu-22 supersonic bomber; the first Tu-104 jet passenger aircraft (it was built on the basis of the Tu-16 bomber), the first Tu-114 turboprop intercontinental passenger airliner, Tu-124, Tu-134, Tu-154 short- and medium-haul aircraft. Together with Alexei Tupolev, the Tu-144 supersonic passenger aircraft was developed. Tupolev's planes became the backbone of Aeroflot's fleet and were also operated in dozens of countries around the world.

22. Eye microsurgery

Millions of doctors, having received a diploma, are eager to help people, dream of future achievements. But most of them gradually lose their former fuse: no aspirations, the same thing from year to year. Fedorov's enthusiasm and interest in the profession only grew from year to year. Just six years after the institute, he defended his Ph.D. thesis, and in 1960 in Cheboksary, where he then worked, he performed a revolutionary operation to replace the lens of the eye with an artificial one. Similar operations were carried out abroad before, but in the USSR they were considered pure charlatanism, and Fedorov was fired from his job. After that, he became the head of the Department of Eye Diseases at the Arkhangelsk Medical Institute. It was here that Fedorov's "empire" began in his biography: a team of like-minded people gathered around the indefatigable surgeon, ready for revolutionary changes in eye microsurgery. People from all over the country flocked to Arkhangelsk with the hope of regaining their lost sight, and they really began to see clearly. The innovative surgeon was also appreciated "officially" - together with his team, he moved to Moscow. And he began to do absolutely fantastic things: to correct vision with the help of keratotomy (special incisions on the cornea of ​​the eye), transplant the donor cornea, developed a new method for operating on glaucoma, and became a pioneer of laser eye microsurgery.

23. Tetris

Mid 80s. A time covered in legends. The idea of ​​Tetris was born by Alexey Pajitnov in 1984 after getting acquainted with the American mathematician Solomon Golomb's Pentomino Puzzle. The essence of this puzzle was quite simple and painfully familiar to any contemporary: from several figures it was necessary to assemble one large one. Alexey decided to make a computer version of pentomino. Pajitnov not only took the idea, but also supplemented it: in his game, it was necessary to collect figures in a glass in real time, and the figures themselves consisted of five elements and could rotate around their own center of gravity during the fall. But the computers of the Computing Center turned out to be unable to do this - the electronic pentomino simply did not have enough resources. Then Aleksey decides to reduce the number of blocks that made up the falling figures to four. So from pentomino turned tetramino. Alexey names the new game “Tetris”.

About people. Remember how people lived in the USSR, what they wore, what they ate and what they believed in.

1. What did every Soviet person dream of buying?
apartment, car, cottage
furniture, chandelier, complete works of Lenin
good relationship between the mother-in-law and the district police officer
refrigerator, TV, iron

2. Under what evening TV show have all the children of the Soviet Union fallen asleep since 1964?
“A dream comes to visit”
“Visiting a fairy tale”
"ABVGDeeyka"
"GOOG night kids!"

3.What did it cost one penny?
glass of sparkling water
bag of seeds
mug of beer
ice cream ‘plombir’

4. What kind of tax really existed in the USSR?
housewife tax
student tax
tax on owners of home libraries
bachelor tax

5. What abbreviation was NOT born in the USSR?
earplugs
moped
samizdat
educational program

6. Find the wrong match between the subculture and the time of its heyday in the USSR.
1980s - disco
1970s - hippies
1950s - dudes
1960s - dandy

7. Were parasites contemptuously called swindlers in the Soviet years?
Yes
Not

8. What was the name of the main artistic method in Soviet art?
commercial realism
neorealism
social realism
proletcult

9. What day of the week was declared "fish day"?
Thursday
Tuesday
Saturday
Monday

10. What could not be seen on the streets of Soviet cities until perestroika?
car ‘Mercedes’
people wearing jeans
girls in miniskirts
billboard advertising Coca-Cola

Right answers

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1. apartment, car, cottage
The famous triad of coveted objects - an apartment, a car, a dacha - in the USSR was the pinnacle of consumer ideals of the population of almost the entire Union. Statistics that knows everything confirms this fact!

2. ‘Good night, kids!’
Not a single self-respecting child fell asleep without a cheerful and instructive conversation between Fili, Khryusha, Stepasha, Karkusha and Aunt Valya, an obligatory cartoon and a lullaby. “Tired toys sleep, books sleep…” remember?

3.a glass of sparkling water
Regular soda could be bought for just a penny, and for three you got a glass of soda with syrup. Matches cost one kopeck for a long time.

4. tax on bachelors
The tax on bachelors, singles and small families really existed from 1941 until the collapse of the Union. It is interesting that it was introduced as a temporary measure to increase the birth rate, but, as often happens, the temporary became permanent ...

5.ear plugs
Ear plugs - “take care of your ears” - plugs invented back in the 19th century, samizdat - a way to distribute written texts, usually illegal, educational program - the elimination of illiteracy, a moped - a motorcycle and a bicycle - a favorite pastime of Soviet youths.

6.1960s - dandy
Dandies were called fashionistas of the 19th century who were overly concerned with their appearance, clothing and image in general. Over time, the term is hopelessly outdated, but the phenomenon remains - today it is metrosexuals.

7.No
Speculators (dealers) who traded in “firm”, that is, foreign goods that were not available for free sale, were called fartsovshchik.

8.socialist realism
The main purpose of art in those years was considered to be the propaganda of true Soviet values. It was based on three principles - nationality, ideology and concreteness. Socialist realism took shape already in the 30s!

9th Thursday
On this day, catering establishments offered a “wide” choice of dishes mainly from pollock and hake, although the menu varied significantly in different regions of the country.

10. billboard advertising Coca-Cola
Jeans, miniskirts, and even Mercedes appeared in the USSR much earlier (for example, Vladimir Vysotsky had a Mercedes). And there was advertising in the USSR, but, of course, but not Coca-Cola. A wonderful drink appeared in Moscow for the Olympics, even Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote: “USSR: 22,400,000 sq. km - and not a single advertisement for Coca-Cola!

What did it cost

1 kop.
Matchbox
a glass of sparkling water without syrup
pencil
a slice of bread in the cafeteria

2 kop.
payphone call

3 kop.
a glass of sparkling water with syrup
a glass of kvass from a barrel
travel by tram
newspapers
a glass of tea in a cafe
notebook

For 5 kopecks?
(bun, travel in the subway, bus, trolleybus)
How much did the tram fare cost? (3 kop.)
And what could be afforded for 10 kopecks?
(milk ice cream, haircut)
For 22 kopecks? (popsicle, cake)
For 30 kopecks? (lottery ticket)
How could you spend 56 kopecks?
(to buy an American dollar - it cost so much, but for its purchase they planted, i.e. it was impossible to buy it)
96 kop. it was worth it ... (wine "Autumn Garden")
1 rub. 50 kop. paid for ... (application to the registry office)
2 rub. 82 kopecks? (vodka)
120 rub. was (engineer's salary)
For 5000 rubles. you could buy ... ("Zhiguli")
For 10,000 rubles? ("Volga")

Today there is an opinion that there is no prophet in his own country, and all modern electronic devices were invented somewhere in the West. But in fact, in the USSR there were many interesting developments of gadgets. Some of them entered the life of Soviet people and were very popular, while others, for various reasons, were available only to a certain circle of people or even remained at the level of projects, because they were ahead of their time.

In 1984 on the Soviet water supply "Electronics" began to produce pocket game consoles. The games "Well, you wait!", where the wolf catches eggs in the basket, had a rectangular LCD screen. The Japanese toys of the Nintendo company were taken as the basis for their release, only there, as a rule, characters from Disney cartoons acted as the main characters.

Until the end of the 80s, the most used by the Soviet people were babin tape recorders (for example, Mayak-202, etc.). But the production of domestic audio players began in the USSR in the 70s. These devices could play compact audio cassettes MK-90 and MK-60 (the numbers in the designation indicated the duration of the recording). It should be noted that at the beginning of the 90s such players were not found by the mass consumer, since they had a rather high price (about 130 rubles).

3. Tablet computer

Back in the 80s of the last century, prototypes of modern tablets began to appear in the West and in the USSR. In 1988 the Elektronika plant produced a limited batch of Elektronika MK-90 microcomputers. Such devices did not have touch screens, so you had to type on a regular mini-keyboard built next to the screen. The device had the following parameters: RAM 16 kB, and permanent memory - 32 kB.

Users then were not ready for such devices, and handheld computers did not gain much popularity then. In addition, "Electronics MK-90" was fabulously expensive: 3,500 rubles, which was the annual salary of a Soviet engineer.

4. Electronic clock

"Electronics-5" can be considered as a "smart" watch of its time. In terms of functionality, they, of course, cannot even compare closely with modern models, but at one time they were able to capture the imagination of users. The electronic clock had a stopwatch, showed the time, date, day of the week, and could also play a few simple melodies.
The price of such an amazing watch at that time was 150 rubles.

5. Mobile phone

The first Soviet mobile phone was manufactured by the Soviet radio engineer L. Kupriyanovich in April 1957. The radiotelephone had a weight of about 3kg. It could safely function within a radius of 20-30 km from the base station. The dialing of the desired number was carried out through the disk mechanism.

6. Mobile communication system

In 1963 in the capital, an experimental mobile communication system "Altai" was launched, which was later introduced in 114 cities of the Soviet Union. The devices of this system could make and receive analog calls. They supplied the cars of the party leadership, as well as special vehicles (for example, ambulances, firefighters, etc.).

7. Personal computer

Back in the 1940s, work began on electronic computers in the USSR. The first working machine was created in Kyiv by a group of Soviet engineers led by Lebedev. For quite a long time, computers were used mainly in production, in specialized educational institutions and in research institutes. Only in the early 80s, some Soviet citizens began to have personal computers. However, most often these were not domestic machines, but Apple or IBM.

Many Soviet research institutes were engaged in the development of personal computers. "Electronics MS-1504" became the first domestic laptop that went into serial production in the early 90s. About this machine, weighing 3.5 kg, we can say that it had a 16-bit processor and 640 kb of RAM. Screen resolution - 640x200.

9. Microwave

An interesting fact: the first prototype of a modern microwave oven appeared in the USSR back in 1941, but the outbreak of war prevented both further development of this direction and the introduction of this device into mass production. Only in 1978, Soviet microwave ovens began to be produced off the assembly line, but they did not find wide popularity among users due to the high price (350 rubles).

And if electronic devices were something out of the ordinary for the Soviet people, then it was.

Some of the greatest men of all time are the founders of the modern civilization in which humanity now lives. Thanks to brilliant minds, a modern person has at his disposal devices and technologies that bring maximum comfort to his life.

Let's get to know these famous people. Who are the most famous inventors?

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Opens a list of the greatest scientists and inventors. His invention is considered to be an aerodynamic machine, with the help of which meteorological instruments rose into the air. Lomonosov is also credited with creating a prototype of a modern aircraft. In addition, he is one of the greatest physicists and chemists of his time. The interests and activities of the scientist were versatile and extensive. He was fond of astronomy, geography, geology, history, philology and other sciences.

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Humanity owes the creation of radio and radio engineering to such a great mind as. The Russian inventor took part in the creation of the first radio workshop. For his services to the Fatherland in the development of science, he was awarded many prizes. In 1898, he received a prestigious award from the Imperial Russian Technical Society "for a receiver for electrical oscillations and devices for telegraphy at a distance without wires." In addition, Popov was engaged in teaching activities. Among the subjects he taught were physics, electrical engineering and mathematics.

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Russian self-taught scientist Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky belongs to the most famous inventors of the USSR. It is he who is considered the founder of theoretical astronautics and aerodynamics. Tsiolkovsky is the inventor of the wind tunnel. At the end of the 19th century, he managed to create the design of an airplane with a metal frame, but he managed to build the device only after two decades. In addition, Tsiolkovsky was a creative person who created a number of works of art.

7.

Included in the list of the world's most famous inventors, writers and politicians. Among all the discoveries of this brilliant man, one can single out the creation of a lightning rod, a Franklin furnace, a glass harmonica, etc. His contribution to medicine is the invention of a flexible urinary catheter. None of Franklin's discoveries was ever patented by him. The scientist was of the opinion that any of the inventions should be open free of charge.

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He is one of the greatest minds of all mankind. It is difficult to overestimate his contribution to science. First of all, Archimedes is known as a brilliant mathematician. Among his practical inventions are siege weapons, as well as mirrors capable of setting fire to material by focusing the rays of the sun. The latter invention was used to set fire to the sails on Roman ships. In addition, the mathematician contributed to the development of mechanics. He was one of the first to demonstrate the full theory of leverage in practice. To this day, his invention, which is called the Archimedean screw, is relevant. With this device, water can be transferred from low-lying reservoirs to irrigation canals.

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Is one of the most famous minds of science in the United States. The inventor was able to receive more than six hundred patents in his entire life. The scientist contributed to the development of industrial robots, automated warehouses and wireless radiotelephones. He created a fax machine, a video recorder and even a video camera. The magnetic tape cassette is also his invention. Lemelson was considered one of the most famous figures of his time. He was an active advocate for the rights of independent scientists, which made him disliked by patent offices and many commercial companies. Lemelson was a true workaholic who worked 14 hours a day. Almost every night, the scientist got up several times to write down his next brilliant idea in a notebook, and in the morning he could demonstrate new projects of his future inventions.

4.

Unrecognized during his lifetime as a great scientist, today he is among the ten most famous inventors. He made a huge contribution to the creation of equipment that runs on alternating current. In addition, thanks to Tesla, polyphase systems, synchronous generators, and so on appeared. His discoveries marked the beginning of the second industrial revolution. The contribution of the inventor to science is connected with the basics of robotics, remote control and computer science. Nikola Tesla holds over a hundred patents. Only descendants could appreciate his merits in the world of inventions.

3.

He is one of the most popular scientists who has made a huge contribution to the development of mankind. One of the great minds was able to create a telephone, which was the result of his work with deaf patients. The audiometer is also Bell's brainchild. In addition, he owns such human creations as a metal detector and one of the first airplanes. Subsequently, the inventor created the Institute. Volta, where the improvement of telephony, electrical communication and the phonograph was carried out. It was possible to open the institute with the proceeds from the creation of a telephone company. He also founded the National Geographic Foundation.

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He is one of the greatest minds of all time and one of the most famous inventors. Edison holds over 1,000 patents in the US alone and about 3,000 worldwide! It is he who belongs to such merits in the world of inventions as the improvement of the telegraph, telephone and film equipment. He is considered one of the first to invent a successful version of the incandescent lamp. He owns such an invention as the phonograph. In the 28th year of the last century, the great scientist was awarded one of the most prestigious awards - the Congressional Gold Medal. Edison worked 17 hours a day. It was hard work and perseverance that helped him achieve such success.

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Tops the list of the most famous and great inventors of all time. Glory to the scientist came with the invention of the first car. He was the first to design a mobile apparatus with an internal combustion engine. After that, the first car company appeared, which began to actively innovate Karl Benz and created the first car with the name Mersedes Benz. The scientist received a patent for a two-stroke gasoline engine in 1878. Later, he patented all the important components and systems of the future mobile transport. The contribution to the development of science and progress made by Benz is invaluable. Thanks to this man, billions of people move freely around the world on a four-wheeled structure. By the way, the first car had only three wheels.