🚀 WORLD’S FIRST GUNPOWDER MISSILE SYSTEM
In 1815-17, the Ukrainian engineer and Russian artillery general Oleksandr Zasyadko (born in 1779 in the village of Lyutenka, Poltava…
🚀 IMMUNE SYSTEM – HUMAN’S STRONGEST SHIELD
Ilya Mechnikov was the author of fundamental works in the fields of immunology, bacteriology and epidemiology, as well as the…
🚀 STREPTOMYCIN – VICTORY OVER TUBERCULOSIS
Tuberculosis remained a dangerous desease even after the discovery of casusative bacteria in 1882. The mortality rates reached 25 percent…
🚀CHARPAK’S CHAMBER
The particle detector (a multiwire proportional chamger – MWPC) was designed and produced by Georgiy [Georges] Charpak, a researcher at…
🚀 JOSEPH LIVCHAK LINOTYPE
In 1875, Joseph Livchak (born in 1839 in Tysiv village, Ivano-Frankivsk region) designed an escapement mechanism for text capturing printing…
🚀 SPOTTED CAMOUFLAGE PATTERN
The commonly used spotted camouflage pattern on the military uniform and military equipment surfaces was patented in 1939 by the…
🚀 LASER DIODE
Nick (Nicholas) Holonyak is credited as the designer of a light emitting diode that produces visible light instead of an…
🚀 THE MANHATTAN PROJECT
George Kistiakowsky was a physicist and chemist of the Ukrainian origin. In 1944-1945 he was the technical director of the…
🚀 FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR AND ELECTRONIC CAPACITOR
One cannot imagine any customer electronics without transistors and capacitors over the last 70 years. The first patents for field-effect…
🚀 CHARGAFF’S RULE AS THE KEY TO DNA
Erwin Chargaff (born in 1905 in Chernivtsi) determined the quantitative relations of nitrogen bases that are part of nucleic acids.…