Not only foreign inventors delighted the world with significant and breakthrough discoveries. Our fellow scientists came up with things, many of which are still used in the world. Read about them in the Rambler material.
Pipeline
Until the mid-19th century, oil in Russia was supplied in bulky barrels. In 1863, Dmitry Mendeleev proposed to lay pipes through which it would be easy to supply fuel to cities. But no one took his idea seriously, it seemed unrealizable. Until a few years later a pipeline was built in the United States. Then in Russia they decided to return to Mendeleev's proposal. In 1878, engineers Vladimir Shukhov and Alexander Bari, relying on Mendeleev's idea and the experience of the Americans, created the first oil pipeline in our country.
Color photo
Despite the fact that the first color photographs began to be taken at the end of the 19th century, the Russian photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky is considered to be the ancestor of color photography. He strove to improve the quality of images, as close as possible to natural color reproduction. In 1905, he managed to create and patent a substance that increased the sensitivity of photographic plates. Thanks to him, the negatives have become of perfect quality.
Color TV
Engineer Vladimir Zvorykin people owe a color picture on the screen. It was he who first designed the kinescope, then patented the iconoscope in the 1930s, and created the first color television in the 1940s, having managed to divide the light beam into red-green-blue colors.
Electric car
In 1899, the inventor Ippolit Romanov created several models of electric cabs at once. And he even developed the “great-grandfather” of a modern bus – an electric bus, in which he offered to carry 17 passengers. But at that time, alas, there were no sponsors for the creation of this public transport.
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