🚀 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…