🚀 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…