Russian trace in world inventions

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

On December 20, 1879, Thomas Edison gave a demonstration of the operation of an incandescent lamp. Surely, few people in the world know, but "Edison's Light Bulb" before the American inventor was invented and implemented by our researchers Lodygin and Yablochkov.

Our brilliant scientists of the past have created many things, without which it is now difficult to imagine the present world. However, not all of these inventions were patented in time. The words that ideas are in the air are often true: more than once in history it happened that two or even several scientists made the same discoveries.

Edison light bulb … It is now widely accepted that the light bulb was first invented by Thomas Edison.

However, before him, light bulbs were invented and implemented by Russian researchers Lodygin (pictured) …

… and Yablochkov.

By the way, both scientists even received patents for their inventions, but did not try to promote it, while Edison popularized his light bulb in all sorts of ways.

Edison brought the light bulb to widespread practical use, it is not surprising that he is considered the inventor of this item.

Radio … One of the most famous stories of a stolen invention is associated with the invention of radio by Alexander Popov.

Popov first demonstrated the effect of radio transmission in 1895, but, as is often the case with us, he did not bother to obtain a patent.

But in 1897 the Italian Guglielmo Marconi received a patent for "wireless telegraphy", and in 1909 - the Nobel Prize for this invention.

Locomotive … In 1763, Ivan Polzunov designed the first two-cylinder vacuum machine in Russia, or, in other words, a steam locomotive.

Already in 1764, the technique was tested in Barnaul, and among others, James Watt, the famous Scottish engineer-inventor, was present at these tests.

He highly appreciated the idea of Polzunov. And then in London in April 1784 he received a patent for a steam engine with a universal engine.

It is James Watt who is considered the inventor of the steam locomotive all over the world.

A bike … Incredibly, the "all-metal pedal scooter" was first built at the Nizhniy Tagil plant in 1801 by the serf inventor Efim Artamonov.

The invention was later called a "bicycle", but no patent registration was taken care of.

The patent for the invention of the bicycle was issued in 1818 to the German Baron Karl Drais.

Electric car … The end of the 19th century can be safely called the time of the electric boom. Almost everyone did electric cars.

One such enthusiast was the engineer Ippolit Romanov, who by 1899 had created several models of electric cabs.

Romanov embodied an electric omnibus for 17 passengers in metal, developed a scheme of city routes for these progenitors of modern trolleybuses, and even received a work permit.

The inventor could not find the amount necessary for the implementation of the project.

While the working electromnibus aroused great interest among other inventors and remained in the history of technology as an invention killed by the municipal bureaucracy.

Electronic paramagnetic resonance … The effect, which is still widely used to study various chemical and biological objects, was discovered in 1944 by Evgeny Zavoisky in Kazan.

But the Nobel Prize for the physically close phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance was awarded to Western scientists.

Periodic table … Surprisingly, the authorship of the periodic table of elements is also one of the most controversial in the scientific world: in many German textbooks, Dmitry Mendeleev is named only as Meyer's successor.

But the German scientist operated only with the "octet rule", according to which the properties of every eighth element are similar to the properties of the first. Then, as a rule, this turned out to be true only for the beginning of the periodic table.

Mendeleev discovered a fundamental law that allowed him to predict the properties of still unknown elements and boldly change the atomic masses of many already discovered.

New generation wheelchair … Already in our time, the Russian inventor Vladimir Lokseev has created a wheelchair on which you can go down and up the stairs.

It was not possible to promote mass production of such a necessary thing for the disabled in Russia.

The inventor turned to France, where he was welcomed with open arms at the Leonardo da Vinci University, after which it was the following:

I thought it was a serious organization - the Leonardo da Vinci University, the second university in France after the Sorbonne. I thought they were serious people, they are just crooks …

… They invited me. And then, upon my return, I was told that at Eurovision they showed their own, that is, mine, wheelchair. So soon our disabled people will buy our strollers from the French, - said the inventor who survived the heart attack.

Computer speed … The Russian electronics engineer Viktor Dorokhin worked for almost twenty years on how to improve the computer, and finally, in 1992, he patented the idea, and then the very “device for increasing the performance of the local area network adapter ETHERNET”.

“It was a real technical breakthrough. I had no money to implement the idea in our country. And I started looking for sponsors abroad. But they just brushed me off. Some wrote that they were not interested in cooperation, others did not answer at all … “- recalls the scientist.

And in 1997, the first computers with the invention of Dorokhin were released in the West. The author contacted foreign executives, claiming his patent rights, and offered to conclude an agreement with him. The manufacturers promised to think it over.

The scientist's correctness is confirmed by the Federal Agency for Legal Protection of the Results of Military, Special and Dual-Purpose Intellectual Activity (FAPRID) under the Ministry of Justice. FAPRID's lawyers have already filed lawsuits against the largest computer companies demanding to stop copyright infringement.

Theft has become a high-profile story Leaning Tower of Pisa Rescue Projectfrom the Barnaul engineer. Evgeny Strazdin claims that Italian architects used his student sketches submitted for participation in the competition for the best project to save an architectural monument.

His proposal was to strengthen the foundations of the Leaning Tower of Pisa with a reinforced concrete ring and fill it with soil. It was this method that was later recognized as the best solution to the problem of saving one of the most famous sights of Italy, however, the authorship was by no means Eugene.

Many inventions left Russia together with their emigrated authors. So, the helicopter was invented by Igor Sikorsky, who emigrated from Russia. In the USA it is called "Mr. Helicopter".

In March 1919, Sikorsky emigrated from post-revolutionary Russia to the United States, settled in the New York area, first earning money teaching mathematics. In 1923 he founded the Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation, where he became president.

The classic Sikorsky scheme with the main main and tail control rotor has been used almost unchanged for 50 years.

TV set … The first television devices (picture tubes) were invented in St. Petersburg by Boris Rosing (pictured) and Lev Termen.

But a real breakthrough in electronic television technology was made by Rosing's student V. K. Zvorykin (who emigrated to America after the revolution and worked for RCA).

In 1923 he applied for a television based entirely on the electronic principle, and in 1931 he created the world's first transmitting electron tube with a mosaic photocathode, called the "iconoscope", which marked the beginning of the development of electronic television.

High quality gasoline … Another emigrant, Vladimir Ipatiev, developed ultra-efficient catalysts in the United States for producing high-octane gasoline.

There is a point of view that it was Ipatiev who won the "Battle of England" in World War II, since British and American fighters flew on such gasoline much faster than German ones, and without changing the engine design

Lasers. The new technology was developed in the 1950s by two Russian scientists, Alexander Prokhorov and Nikolai Basov, who received the Nobel Prize for them.

Another American, Charles Townes, also received an award for these developments, and it was he who immediately received a patent for his invention, and then sold the rights to it to manufacturers, since he realized that he had a gold mine in his hands.