🚀 THE FIRST ELECTRIC TRAM
In 1880, in the town of Sestroretsk near St. Petersburg, the world’s first electric tramline was put into operation. It…
🚀 SIKORSKY R-4 – WORLD’S FIRST SERIAL HELICOPTER FOR THE U.S. ARMY
The Sikorsky R‑4 was the world’s first serial helicopter, and the first helicopter included in the inventory of the US…
🚀 TURBOJET ENGINE
The design of the world’s first two‑circuit turbojet engine was developed from 1939‑1941 by Ukrainian Arkhip Lyulka, who was born…
🚀 FLEXIBLE SUPERCAPACITOR
This capacitor was designed by scientists at Lviv Polytechnic National University from 1990‑2011 under the leadership of Hryhoriy Ilchuk in…
🚀 THE UKRAINIAN SPACE PROGRAM
Ukrainian scientists have made a decisive contribution to the success of the Soviet space program, and Ukrainian companies were the…
🚀 ARC WELDING
Between 1802‑1803, Vasily Petrov, who studied at the Kharkiv Collegium, discovered the phenomenon of the electric arc and described the…
🚀 ROCKET SHIELD OF THE USSR
In 1914, Volodymyr Chelomey was born in Siedlce, the Russian Empire, which is now modern‑day Poland. A few months after…
🚀 LIQUID FUEL MISSILE CARRIER MBR R‑7
The MBR R‑7 placed into space orbit the first artificial Earth satellite and first manned spacecraft. It was designed by…
🚀 EKRANOPLAN: THE CASPIAN SEA MONSTER
The Caspian Sea Monster ekranoplan, or KM—invented by Rostyslav Alekseyev—was the world’s heaviest aircraft until the introduction of the Anotonov‑225…
🚀 BURAN
Buran, a Soviet space shuttle, was created by the Molniya design bureau headed by Ukrainian designer Hlib Lozyno-Lozynsky (born in…
🚀 CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION – VLADIMIR FILATOV EYE SURGERY SCHOOL
The first known successful corneal transplantation took place in Olomouc (now Czech Republic) in 1905. The surgeon planted corneas from…
🚀 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…