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1913
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Space
Korolev S.P. at the age of six
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Serhii Pavlovych Koroliov National Museum of Cosmonautics
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Emigration
Ukrainians Worldwide
NASA
Moon
Kondratyuk, Portrait
Inventor
Emigration
Space
NASA
Moon
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.
Inventor
Emigration
The father of the cell phone is Martin Cooper.
Inventor
Emigration
Martin Cooper shows FCC Commissioner Benjamin Hooks the first DynaTAC cell phone
Cooper, 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."
Inventor
Aviation
Ihor Sikorsky seated at the forward edge of his first airplane desing, S-1
Inventor
First eletric tram
Scince
Father of the electric tram - Fedir Pirocki
Using 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.
Inventor
Emigration
Medicine
India
Haffkin saves the world from Cholera
He 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.
Business
Inventor
Emigration
Sikorsky solved the riddle of Da Vinci
Creator 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.
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