200 years ago people still did not have electricity, good vehicles, television, mobile phones, Internet and other things we cannot do without today.
Some of the most significant inventions were made by Russians, and here they are…
Gleb Kotelnikov is an inventot of a back pack parachute. In a theater he noticed a woman with a folded piece of cloth that after simple manipulations turned into an unfolded kerchief. This is how an operational principle of a parachute came to Gleb’s mind. Some other ideas of Gleb were never realized.
N. D. Zelinskiy invented a carbon filter mask to protect people from poisonous gases used by the enemy at the time of WWI. Absorbent carbon successfully neutralized all of them.
Z. L. N. Gobyato – inventor of a mortar. He invented it in the field conditions of the Russo-Japanese war 1904-1905. It represented a light 47 mm naval gun on the wheels shooting with handmade pole mines at a particular angle and high trajectory.
I. F. Alexandrovskiy – inventor of a mobile mine (torpedo) and the first mechanically driven submarine for the Russian fleet.
V. G. Fedorov is a creator of the world first rifle. He started to make it before WWI in 1913. In 1916 it started to be used for combat actions.
A.S. Popov – radio inventor. He showed his redioreceiver in May, 1895 at the meeting of the physical and chemical committee in Saint Petersburg. unfortunately, he didn’t patent it and the Noble prize for radio invention was given to G. Marconi.
G. G. Ignatyev was the first to make a system of simultaneous telephony and telegraphy with a single cable.
V. K. Zvorykin – inventor of television and telecasting on an electrical basis. It was him who designed an iconoscope, a kinescope, basic color television. However he made most of his inventions in the USA where he had emigrated in 1919.
A. M. Ponyatov is an inventor of a videotape recorder. Just as Zvorykin he emigrated in the years of the civil war and continued his work in the USA. In 1956 Ampex company under his direction presented the world first commercial videotape recorder.
I. A. Timchenko made the first cinecamera in the world. It was used to show movies on a white sheet in 1893 in Odessa, Ukraine.
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