Thomas Edison
The name of the famous American inventor, a talented 19th century entrepreneur, the founder of several large electrical companies Thomas Edison is inextricably linked to a number of great inventions that have not lost their significance and relevance in our modern world. On account of the great experimenter more than a thousand inventions in various fields of electrical engineering. Continue reading
Denis Papen
Denis Papen is a famous French scientist, physicist, mechanic, talented inventor, who was well ahead of his time and made an important contribution to the development of technical progress. His birthplace was a small French town near Blois. The date of his birth is called 08.22.1647, the truth in reality is the date of his baptism. Denis was the eldest son in the family of Madeleine Pino and Denis Papen, the Royal Counsel. Mother dreamed of medical education for the eldest son, as was customary in her family. Continue reading
Alexey Nikolaevich Beketov
Alexey Nikolaevich Beketov in Scientists Kharkov is rightfully proud of its historical and cultural attractions. No less pride is experienced by the inhabitants of the city for famous and famous people who were born, lived, worked, invested heart and soul in this beautiful city. Among them are world-famous actors, scientists, musicians, athletes, politicians. We name only some of them. V.N. Karazin – a scientist, educator, founder of the first university in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian writer and playwright G.F. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko. Founder of the school of planetology, astronomer, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR N.P. Barabashov. Continue reading
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An outstanding mining engineer, the brilliant metallurgical scientist P.P. Anosov. Born one of the founders of the new science – metallography 29.06.1796, in Tver. In addition to Paul, three more children grew up in a family of collegiate assessor P. Anosov. After the early death of the parents of the children, LF Sabakin, the grandfather of the mother, took care of him. It was he who played the most important role in the further fate of the adolescent, identifying Paul and his brother to the St. Petersburg Mining Cadet Corps in 1810. Continue reading
Gabriel Fahrenheit
The temperature scale of Celsius has long been recognized worldwide. However, even today in the USA and England they often use the temperature scale created at the beginning of the 18th century by the German physicist and glass blower Fahrenheit and named after him. The scientist forever entered the history of world science as the inventor of the world’s first glass mercury thermometer. Continue reading
