Russian inventors and inventions

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“Russian inventors and inventions”

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OUTSTANDING INVENTORS
OF RUSSIA
The Russian
inventors and
scientists made the
great contribution to
the development of
world science. Their
names are worldknown.

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Alexander Fedorovich Mozhaisky
Was a Russian naval officer,
aviation pioneer and designer of
heavier-than-air craft.
The first flight of that aircraft took
place in the military camp (canton
ment) of Krasnoje Selo on the 20th of
July, 1882. It was not allowed for
Mozhaisky to raise in the sky. Because
he was already 57.
Mozhaisky's aero plane was
the 1st in the world.
1825 -1890.

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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
Mendeleev has been credited
with the invention of the
periodic table.
The Great Russian scientist Dmitri
Mendeleev discovered the Periodic Law
of Elements in 1869. All future
discoveries in the field of chemistry and
physics have been based on this law.
His discovery made it possible to find 38
new chemical elements to fill the empty
spaces left in the Periodic table.
1834 - 1907

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Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
(1857 -1935)
A rocket scientist and a
pioneer of astronautics
• The greatest event of the
20th century was the
flight man into space.
• Tsiolkovsky is the father
of rocket flying. He
worked out the theory of
cosmic flights.
• Tsiolkovsky believed that
Mankind would not
remain on Earth forever.
With Gagarin's flight his
dreams came true.

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VLADIMIR KOSMA ZWORYKIN
He has been called
"The Father of Television
Russian inventor, Vladimir Zworykin invented
the cathode-ray tube called the kinescope in
1929. The kinescope tube was needed for
television very much. Zworykin was one of the
first to demonstrate a television system with all
the features of modern picture tubes.
1899 -1982

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Sergei Pavlovich Korolyov
S. Korolyov devoted his life to rocket
research, constructing artificial satellites.
History changed on October 4, 1957, when the
Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I.
The world's first artificial satellite was about
the size of a basketball, weighed only 183
pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit
the Earth on its elliptical path. That launch
ushered in new political, military,
technological, and scientific developments.
While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it
marked the start of the space age and the
U.S.-U.S.S.R space race.
He was a Rocket engineer and designer,
"Father of the space program.
1907 - 1966

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Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
1921 - 1989
Sakharov worked on was the 50MTTsar
Bomba of October 1961, which was the
most powerful nuclear device ever
exploded.
Born in 1921 Sakharov an outstanding
scientist and public figure worked on
hydrogen bomb and came to conclusion
that any atomic and nuclear weapon
should be banned. He protested against
the invasion in Afghanistan, against any
violation of human rights.
Abroad he was recognized as a civil
rights activist and received the Nobel
Prize. At home he was persecuted,
deprived of all his titles and orders and
exiled to the city of Gorky. Only in 1985 he
was allowed to come back to Moscow. He
was given back all his titles and was
elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet. He
said that our society should develop in a
new direction and foresaw the changes
that are taking place now.

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Give simple information
about the Russian inventor
using the following
prompts

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ANDREW KONSTANTINOVICH
NARTOV
(1693 – 1756)
• the dates of the life 1693 –
1756
• to be born in Moscow
• To be called by Peter I to
• St.Perersburg, to be his
“personal turner”
• to be one of the remarkable
mechanical engineers and
inventors
• to invent optics
(оптические приборы)

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IVAN KULIBIN
(1735— 1818)
• the dates of his life
1735-1818
• to be born in Nizhniy
Novgorod
• Russian mechanic and
self-educated person
• To create a clock in a
shape of an egg
• to be appointed a head
of a mechanical
workshop
• to design from clocks to
ships

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PYOTR KOZMICH FROLOV
(1775—1839)
• the dates of his life 1775—1839
• to work in Altai, to study Primary
Metal Manufacturing
(металлургическое
производство)
• to be found a Picture Gallery in
Barnaul
• to create the1st in Russia cast-iron
(чугунная) railway
• to develop metallurgical
technology
• to found a museum of local lore
(краеведческий)

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BORIS SEMYONOVICH JACOBI
(1801-1874 )
• the dates of the life: 1801 –
1874
• to be born in Germany,
Potsdam
• to be a German by birth
• to study at university in
Gottingen, a professor of civil
architecture
• To be a Russian physicist, to
invent electrical appliances in
the sphere of electrical
engineering
• to die in St. Petersburg

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ALEXANDER STEPANOVICH
POPOV
(1859 -1906)
• the dates of the life: 1859 – 1906
• to be born in the village Turinskiye
Rudniki (now Krasnoturinsk,
Sverdlovsk Oblast) in the Ural
mountains
• to be a Russian physicist
• to invent a radio
• To receive a good education at the
seminary at Perm, and later to study
physics at the St. Petersburg
university.
• to die of a brain hemorrhage
(кровоизлияние) on January 13,
1906.