Korolev S.P. at the age of six

At the beginning of cinema stood Ukrainian mechanic Yosyp Timchenko together with physicist Mykola Lyubimov, who two years before the discovery of the Lumiere brothers, developed a “snail” – a jumping mechanism.In 1893, films shot using a kinescope were already being shown in Odessa, thus outpacing the Lumières. But Timchenko failed to patent his device. His kinescope is still stored in the storage rooms of the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow. Timchenko was also the author of automatic meteorological, physical and astronomical instruments, for which he received awards at world exhibitions. He participated in the creation of the first model of the Freudenberg automatic telephone exchange.

Sikorsky at the wheel of one of the first aircraft models

Kondratyuk, Portrait

John C. Houbolt at blackboard, showing his space rendezvous concept for lunar landings.Lunar Orbital Rendezvous (LOR) would be used in the Apollo program. Although Houbolt did not invent the idea of LOR, he was the person most responsible for pushing it at NASA.

The father of the cell phone is Martin Cooper.

Martin Cooper shows FCC Commissioner Benjamin Hooks the first DynaTAC cell phoneCooper, left, showing FCC commissioner Benjamin Hooks the first cell phone, the DynaTAC, in 1973. "There was unanimity within Motorola regarding AT&T: they could not be allowed to extend their monopoly […] We had to beat them; we had to beat the monopoly."

Sikorsky in Kyiv with the first helicopter model

Ihor Sikorsky seated at the forward edge of his first airplane desing, S-1

Father of the electric tram - Fedir PirockiUsing and relying on Pirockyj's scientific developments, Werner von Siemens created the first electric trams in Europe. What did Pirocki do a year later in Kyiv.

Haffkin saves the world from CholeraHe studied at Odessa University, from where he was expelled for participating in the political organization "Narodna Volya". After refusing to use anti-cholera vaccination in a number of European countries, Volodymyr Khavkin worked in India from 1896, where he created the first ever vaccine against cholera.

Sikorsky solved the riddle of Da VinciCreator of the world's first airplanes: four-engined (1913), heavy four-engined bomber and passenger plane (1914), transatlantic seaplane (1934), serial single-screw helicopter (1942), Sikorsky S-29-A. Designer of the first US amphibious aircraft.