13 greatest inventions stolen from us Russians invented everything but failed to patent

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

Scientists from different countries gathered to find out once and for all who invented the most. An Italian gets up and says:

- "Our scientist Marconi invented the radio." And the Russian answered him:

- "No, the radio was invented by the Russian scientist Popov." The American gets up:

- "Edison invented the light bulb." Russian again:

- "No, Ladygin invented the light bulb." The Englishman stands up:

"Our Wright brothers invented the airplane." The Russian retorts again:

- "No, it was Mozhaisky who invented the plane." A German rises and says:

- "Okay, there, the radio, the light bulb, the plane, but the X-ray was definitely invented by the German Roentgen." I am russian:

- "Yours is not true. According to historical documents, the Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible, collecting the Duma, he said to the boyars: I can see through you, bastards."

Self-running stroller or car

In 1751, Leonty Shamshurenkov, a skillful mechanic from among the people, made a "self-running wheelchair" according to the state order, moving without any extraneous force. Shamshurenkov was awarded fifty rubles. The further fate of the carriage is unknown to historians.

18 years later, in 1769, the Frenchman Nicola Cugno presented a similar device to the whole world. It's a shame, the whole world knows the Frenchman Cugno, and the name of our designer has been forgotten!

Helicopter

In 1754 M. V. Lomonosov creates a model of an aircraft

vertical takeoff, which should have been provided by twin propellers (on parallel axes). This was the first true prototype of a helicopter. Only in 1922, Professor Georgy Botezat, who emigrated from Russia to the United States after the revolution, built the first steadily controlled helicopter for the US Army.

Locomotive

The first in Russia two-cylinder vacuum steam engine, simply speaking a steam locomotive, was designed by mechanic Ivan Polzunov in 1763. James Watt was present at the tests of the car, which took place in Barnaul just a year later. He liked the idea very much … In April 1784 in London he managed to obtain a patent for a steam engine with a universal engine. A member of the commission for the acceptance of Polzunov's invention, James Watt is considered its inventor.

Narcosis

Russian doctor Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov, surgeon and anatomical scientist, professor, creator of the first atlas of topographic anatomy, and most importantly, the founder of Russian military field surgery and the founder of the Russian school of anesthesia. It was he who first began to use ether for pain relief during operations in military field conditions. In total, Pirogov performed about 10,000 operations under ether anesthesia. He was also the first in Russian medicine to start using plaster of Paris to treat fractures. A very active surgeon and scientist, passionate about his work. He had no time to think about patents. He thought about the results. And the surgeon Thomas Morton patented it as an invention.

A bike

In 1801, the serf inventor Efim Artamonov at the Nizhniy Tagil plant built the first two-wheeled all-metal pedal scooter, which would later be called a bicycle … Then, in 1818, a patent for this invention would be issued to the German Baron Karl Drais! The great Russian mathematician Pafnutiy Chebyshev succeeded in 1860, as it seemed incredible then: to calculate and develop "the design of the straight-line movement of mechanisms without wheelsets, according to the step principle." The apparatus was called a plantigrade machine. This car can be considered with complete confidence the grandmother of today's Japanese robots! This is reported by Rambler.

Robot

Forgotten, unfortunately, is the contribution of the great Russian mathematician Pafnutiy Chebyshev (1821 - 1894) to the development of modern robotics. One of the areas to which he paid great attention was the theory of mechanisms and machines. Pafnutiy Lvovich, in particular, created a number of so-called mechanisms with stops, using which he built his famous stepping (plantigrade) machine that imitates the gait of an animal and is considered the "grandmother" of today's robots. By the way, Chebyshev created about 40 different mechanisms and almost 80 of their modifications, thanks to which he is considered one of the greatest minds of his time.

Incandescent lamp

The device in its current form is known as the "Edison bulb". Meanwhile, Edison only improved it. The first creator of the lamp was a Russian scientist, a member of the Russian Technical Society, Alexander Nikolaevich Lodygin. This happened in 1870. Lodygin was the first to suggest using tungsten filaments in lamps and twisting the filament in the form of a spiral. Edison only patented an incandescent lamp in 1879.

Diving apparatus

Back in 1871, Lodygin developed the first draft of a diving suit and proposed using a gas mixture of oxygen and hydrogen for breathing. However, Henry Fluss received the patent in 1878. He is considered the inventor of the closed-circuit breathing underwater vehicle using pure oxygen.

Radio

On May 7, 1895, Alexander Stepanovich Popov for the first time publicly demonstrated the reception and transmission of radio signals at a distance. In 1896 A. S. Popov transmitted the world's first radiotelegram. In 1897 A. S. Popov established the possibility of radar using a wireless telegraph. And in Europe and America it is believed that the radio was invented by the Italian Guglielmo Marconi in the same 1895.

Tetris

The most famous computer game invented by Alexey Pajitnov in 1985. Pajitnov could not get a patent for the game, since he created it while working at the Academy of Sciences. He6 transferred the rights to the game for 10 years to the USSR. The Elorg organization was created, which became the copyright holder of the state license for Tetris. The license, already formalized by law, was bought by the giant Nintendo. True, this again did not bring Pajitnov any benefit.

Laser

The first laser, called the maser, was made in 1953-1954. N. G. Basov and A. M. Prokhorov. In 1964, Basov and Prokhorov received the Nobel Prize in Physics. However, on March 22, 1960, No. 2, 929, 922, a patent was obtained in the name of Townes and Shawlov, confirming their right to invention an optical maser, which today we simply call a laser.

Computer

The world's first personal computer was invented not by the American company Apple Computers and not in 1975, but in the USSR in 1968 by the Soviet designer from Omsk Arseny Anatolyevich Gorokhov. Copyright certificate No. 383005.

Electric motor

The first electric motor, consisting of fixed and rotating parts, was invented in 1834 by the physicist Boris Semenovich Jacobi. The most important thing in his invention was the discovery of the principle of continuous rotary motion. Received a patent for an electric motor by Thomas Davenport in 1837.