🚀 SURGICAL ZIPPER
The surgical suture, or zip fastener is a plastic device that is glued to the body with adhesive tape and…
🚀 ANTITHROMBOTIC PROSTHETIC HEART VALVES
The Kyiv surgeon Mykola Amosov was the inventor of antithrombotic prostheses. In 1965, he performed the first surgery operation on…
🚀 ILYA MUROMETS AIRPLANE
Ilya Muromets is the world’s first passenger aircraft, the world’s first four‑engine aircraft, and the world’s first strategic bomber. Ilya…
🚀 ELECTRIC WELDING OF SOFT TISSUE
This is a method of connecting soft tissues during surgery using a high‑frequency electric current; designed in 1992‑1993 by the…
🚀 GAS LAMP
In 1853, Ignatius Lukasevich and Jan Zeh, assistants at the Lviv pharmacies Under the Golden Star owned by Peter Mikolyash,…
🚀 BAKHMUTSKY COAL COMBINE
In 1932, engineer Oleksandr Bakhmutsky, born in the city of Pervomaysk, Ukraine, designed coal combine B‑1. However, it needed significant…
🚀 ENABLETALK GLOVES
EnableTalk gloves can establish verbal contact between people with disabilities and those who do not understand sign language. They were…
🚀 HARD DISK DRIVES (HDD)
The creation of hard drives, and along with them modern computers, opened the road to the creation of thin‑film inductive…
🚀 NUCLEAR ICEBREAKERS AND SUBMARINES
Academician Anatoly Oleksandrov is considered to be the father of Soviet nuclear fleet. He was a native of the town…
ANTONOV-225 — WORLD’S LARGEST AIRCRAFT
Antonov‑225 Mriya is the world’s largest commercial plane, and the heaviest aircraft in the world. In March 1989, in one…
🚀 FRAMEWORK HIVE
Traditional fixed‑comb hives for beekeeping require harvesters to kill the entire bee colony to collect honey. This reduced the industry’s…
🚀 PIEZO MOTOR
The Piezo motor (known in English as the USM – Ultra Sonic Motor, SWM – Silent Wave Motor, HSM –…
🚀 KONDRATYUK ROUTE (LUNAR ORBIT RENDEZVOUS) – APOLLO LUNAR PROGRAM
The most favorable and fuel efficient track for the space flight from the Earth to the Moon for the first…
🚀 CHURYUMOV GERASIMENKO COMET
The comet was discovered on October 23, 1969 by the Ukrainian researchers Klim Churyumov and Svetlana Gerasimenko. Churyumov was born…
🚀 WELDING IN SPACE
The world’s first welding in space was completed in 1969 by astronauts Valeriy Kubasov and Georgiy Shonin of the Soyuz‑6…
WhatsApp is an instant messenger for smartphones. It was created by company founders Brian Acton and Jan Koum. The latter…
🚀 THE LIQUID JET SCALPEL
Created in 2014 in the Kharkiv Aerospace Institute and the National Aviation University (Kyiv), this scalpel uses high pressure to…
🚀 POCKETBOOK ELECTRONIC READER
PocketBook Company is the fourth largest global manufacturer of premium electronic readers with E‑Ink technology, as well as multimedia readers…
🚀 RINGS OF JUPITER
In March 1979, American robotic space probe Voyager 1 for the first time photographed the rings around the solar system’s…
🚀 PAYPAL
PayPal is the most common service in the world of Internet payments. Today, PayPal is used by more than 230…