Video: Interesting facts about Russia and Russians
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
Photo: Racing Mercedes 120PS (1906) was powered by an in-line six-cylinder engine. The authorship of the motor is attributed to Boris Lutsky
1. Engines for Mercedes-Daimler were developed by Russian engineer Boris Lutskoy. In accordance with the agreement, on each side of the automobile engines a plate “Lutskoy-Daimler” was to be attached, but “Mercedes-Daimler” misappropriated the patent for itself.
2. Two of the five founding fathers of Hollywood came from Russia. Including MGM founders Goldwyn and Meyer. Mayer spoke poor English for the rest of his life and had difficulty reading scripts.
3. The famous fragrance "Chanel No. 5" was invented not by Coco Chanel, but by the Russian émigré perfumer Verigin, who worked in the Chanel perfumery department together with the native Muscovite Ernest Bo.
4. David Duchovny, Sylvester Stallone, Steven Spielberg, Natalie Portman, Mila Jovovoch, Winona Ryder and Sean Pen have Russian roots. The great-grandmother of actress Whoopi Goldberg is from Odessa. Almost half of foreign celebrities can find Russians in their genealogy.
5. The first artificial heart was also created in Russia. The device was designed and tested on animals in 1936 by Vladimir Demikhov. He bought an electric motor for the heart with money sent to him by his parents for a new suit.
6. As historical documents irrefutably prove, the first plane was tested by Alexander Fedorovich Mozhaisky twenty years earlier than the Wright brothers.
7. The world's first video recorder appeared in 1956. Its creator was the American company AMPEX (AMPEX), whose founding father was named Alexander Mikhailovich Ponyatov. "AMR" are the first letters of his name, patronymic and surname. And since before the revolution he was a colonel in the tsarist army, he had the right to the address "Your Excellency", in English Exellence.
8. Many of the world's leading scientists and designers were Russian. Yablochkov and Lodygin invented the first light bulb, Popov invented the wireless telegraph, Sikorsky invented a helicopter and a bomber, Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky invented color photography, and Zvorykin invented a television.
9. The anthem of the Thai royal family, which was the country's official anthem until 1932, was written to the music of the Russian composer Pyotr Shchurovsky.
10. The Nevyanskaya Tower, located in the Sverdlovsk Region, was equipped with a lightning rod a quarter of a century before it was designed by Benjamin Franklin.
See also the film The Russian Civilization. Inventors and their inventions
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