Famous Ukrainian inventors, whom you have never heard. Part 1

Ukrainians are an authors of many important and valuable inventions. Unfortunately, often inventions stay, but the author's real names are forgotten. Also people like to attribute authorship to others. In this article I choose the 32 most interesting inventions, made by Ukrainians.

1. The rocket engine

Sergey Korolyov is the designer of Soviet rocketry and astronautics founder. In 1957 Korolyov launched into orbit the first ever artificial Earth satellite. Under his leadership, the first intercontinental ballistic missile was launched, the first manned flight into space and access into space.

2. Kondratyuk’s Route

Yuri Kondratyuk. An author of the so called "Kondratyuk’s Route", which traveled to the moon spacecraft "Apollo."

3. Flight to the moon

Ihor-Orest Bohachevsky. Scientist. By formula (known as "formula Bohachevsky"), which allowed designers to calculate return the spacecraft to the space station from the surface of another planet. This was calculated flight to the moon, also return to Earth next American spacecraft "Apollo-11".

4. A-bomb

Georgiy (George) Kistyakivskiy. Since 1926 lived in the US. He was Harvard University professor from 1933, member of the American National Academy of Sciences, and later its vice-president. During World War II appointed a member of the American Committee for National Defense (1944-1945). He was one of the creators of the atomic bomb (head of nuclear explosives laboratories at Los Alamos). Since 1957 he was an Advisor to the US President D.Eyzenhauer for national policy and technology.

5. Nuclear Physics

Mykola Pylchykov - inventor of electric phonograph. M. Pylchykov was one of the founders of metrological station in Kharkiv, where he conducted practical studies and own research. In 1899-1900 he, first in the world, performed experimental studies on radioactivity than has launched a new branch of science - nuclear physics. Pylchykov created radioprotectors designed for protection from radio interception.

6. Helicopter

The inventor of the helicopter is Kyiv aircraft, who emigrated to the United States, Igor Sikorsky. In 1931, he patented design machines with two propellers - horizontal roof and vertical tail. The first VS-300 helicopter took to the skies in 1939. Later, based on his VS-300, was created the world's first helicopter-amphibious, that could take off from the water and sit on land. Also Igor Sikorsky was an author of first aircraft giants "Ilya Muromets".

 

7. Electric Tram

In the early 1870s Poltava’s inventor Theodore Pirotskyy created power transmission technology, developed by iron wire. In 1880 he presented project use of electricity "to move trains from the power supply." After a year in Berlin went first tram manufactured by Siemens under the scheme of Pirotskyy.

8. Seaplane

Dmytro Grigorovich. Aircraft. The creator of the first seaplane.

9. Scheme of jet machine

Mykola Kibalchich. Author of scheme the world's first jet aircraft. He drew a scheme, being imprisoned. Later, his schemes were hidden to the archive, and only a few decades after the death of Kibalchich, archives were opened.

10. The fastest car in the world

A project of fastest Soviet car was developed by Kharkiv engineer Volodymyr Nikitin in 1966. This car had scripting helicopter gas turbine engine GTE-350 with capacity of 400 horsepower. During the check car could develop a speed of 320 km / h at a distance of 1 km.

 

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