Plane.
A. Mozhaysky was a Russian naval officer, aviation pioneer, researcher and designer of heavier-than-air craft. He constructed his first airplane in 1883.
Radio transmitter.
A. Popov, a Russian physicist, was the first person to demonstrate the practical application of electromagnetic radio waves. Beginning in the early 1890s he continued the experiments of other radio pioneers, such as Heinrich Hertz, and in 1894 he built his first radio receiver, a version of the coherer. Further refined as a lightning detector, it was presented to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society on May 7th, 1895 — the day has been celebrated in Russia as Radio Day. In 1896, he demonstrated transmission of radio waves between different campus buildings in Saint Petersburg. He demonstrated ship-to-shore communication over a distance of 6 miles in 1898 and 30 miles in 1899. However, it is Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor, who is believed to be the father of long distance radio transmission in Europe and the USA.
Television.
B. Grabovsky and I. Belyansky were Soviet engineers who invented the a fully electronic TV transmitting in 1928. Even earlier, in 1923, it was V. Zworykin, a pioneer of television technology, who invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode ray tubes.
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The first practical helicopter was build for the russian-ukrainian, emigrated to America, engineer Igor Sikorsky in 1941. Thanks to the articulated rotor heads created by the spanish engineer and inventor Juan de la Cierva for their autogiros.
True – and his grandparents were Polish origin (see his surname
What a bull… Soviet propaganda always alive to give an example- computers existed long before russian apple…
I was hoping I was about to learn that the Ferrari had been invented in Russia
Yep – there were many jokes, what Russian/Soviet scientists invented before anyone else
BTW – don’t forget about the great inventor – Trofim Lysenko
So, why do the Russian not take the credit for invention of propaganda?
To be perfectly clearly, bicycle was “invented” by russians in german attic just right after the war. And dispensable shaving machine is also the creation of soviets: it was invented in the trashcan behind american embassy in Moscow…Propaganda, nothing more.
Ferrari is a brand, the car is more general category. Too bad the quality of discussion drops to this level…. Russians did invent or co-invent a lot of things, the propaganda in US is much worse, they think they invented Earth and the way we walk on it….
right.
Can’t agree more. It all boils down to who patent first.
Hot water was also invented by a russian engineer.
Polzunov did not have a steam engine invention stolen by Watt. Watt only changed the design of the Newcomen Steam Engine from 1712.
Lodygin’s light in 1872 was preceeded by Swan’s 1860 Electric light, but this was unreliable for mass production which went to Edison’s light bulb.
On the other hand you have missed Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov who share the 2010 Nobel prize for Graphene
Let us not forget the Adidas nylon track suit. Probably one of the most significant advances to come out of Russia in some time.
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@testes, good to have you back =)))))
THANK YOU RUSSIA FOR ALL THIS,THE WORLD LOVE YOU RUSSIA
HAHAHA FANNY ENOUGH, WESTERNERS CLAIM ALL ABOVE INVENTIONS. I CAN TELL THAT EXCEPT SATELLITES GREEKS INVENTED EVERYTHING ELSE, AND NOW THEY ARE ASKED TO PAY FOR THEM
teddy bear was invented in Germany.
wow. wass this meant to bea a joke or do some russians actually believe all of this?
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was not mentioned here. The importance of his inventions is staggering especially when compared to his life story. He was a deaf boy turned into village school Math teacher and then became the pioneer of space flight, particularly multiple stage rockets, and he did it in the middle of nowhere, in a village, alone and totally on his own faculties with zero scientific support. The internet, including the website of Nasa is filled with details about him. His late 1800 projects such as space elevator is now being considered seriously because nanotechnology makes it possible to build such structures. (Wikipedia notes he was inspired by Jules Verne in general and the Eiffel tower was the inspiration for the space elevator)
LOL…I guess everything was invented in Russia….that’s really amusing.
This list is a fail because by this standard half of it was invented previously by Leonardo da Vinci. Fact!
Hahahahaha…. you forgot the telephone.
And the B-29.
You did a post on everything supposedly invented in russia or by ruissian, how about one that shows all the stuff they STOLE and/or copied! (like that B-29….)
I understand that they also invented the internet, but Al Gore claimed it!!
hahahahahaha. Oh dear when will some Russians mature. All this does is re-inforce Russian feelings of inferiority. I guess thats why Russians put up with their corrupt and lying politicians because that accept this sort of mis-information without checking the facts.Maybe
this is Russian self deprecating irony .Even the most cursory and small investigation would disprove almost every assertion in this odd diatribe.
My favorite Russian invention: anarchism, by Peter Kropotkin and Mikhail Bakunin.
You guys forgot about Marx and Engels. Oh, pardon le mot – they were not Russian. I meant – Lenin and Stalin. Pardon again – Stalin was Georgian. Lenin only. Patented Russian invention!
Enigma Global # 08 by A.Oscar Maybe most of inventions weren’t done by Russians; but why USA tries to get the credit for many inventions, when USA accepted emigrations with great skills. Just like the famous; relativity was Germany, the great Van Brown the rockets, and many inventions done by emigrants from all over the world in American. One of the best inventions to compete with USSR was in 1968 when Americans was so busy lie, by putting feet in the Moon. Special of so much ambitions to have bases in 70 countries, 44 years after,forgot the technology to go back again to the moon. Yes not just Russians or Americans lie; human beings continue to be lies, and because of such, not just Americans lost four big wars; still lost the great economy that have had, helped by the dollar in use all over the world, also Visa and Master Charge. And now we all terrestrials could suffer not just for the third world war, and a possibility of the great Catastrophe to mankind of eliminate existence of all living creatures. The wealth of weapons of mass destruction makes USA the most power full country towards the total destruction of planet Earth. 16/02/2012 by A.Oscar
Charles Babbage was Father of the computer an English guy
Yes, but who invented beer?
wooow they invented everything!!
You have to understand, that according the education which they have been given in their country, this all is true, and everything else is capitalistic propaganda. They and their parents have been living behind the iron curtains made by soviet union, so how they can learn the truth? I live in Finland and I had a coworker from Estonia. He told me these things like an only truth there is, so I take him to the museum and show him what is the difference about the facts and soviet propaganda. That make him cry, but it also open his eyes.
None of these inventions can be established as russian. Only exception is Sikorsky who was half polish !
If I get it the truth is only existing between you and the source. is that what you saying ?
Anyway the western “truth” is so anti-Russian these day that we have to do something about it.
internet was invented by Wania Internetov in 1823. Internetov presented its invention to Tzar but he fall asleep and forgot everything. Than Internetov took internet with him and went away. Later on he live happily in great prosperity for next 50 years.
Yo!
That’s what i thought!
George de Bothezat was romanian, born in Iasi 1882, and was educated in Petrograd, Göttingen, Berlin. He returned to Romania in 1918, then emigrated to the U.S. where he was offered a position as director of the Aerodynamics Laboratory and professor, both at the University of Dayton, Ohio. Subsequently, in January 1921 signed a contract with the U.S. Army, which has committed to build one of the largest helicopters in that time. In order not to disturb the Constructors and keep them curious aside, the project was classified “top secret”. Between 1922-1923, “Flying Octopus”, as called helicopter flew successfully several times, but never at an altitude of more than 2 meters.
Calculations of Botezatu were consulted in preparing the U.S. program of space research – “Apollo”. He died in 1940 in Boston.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_de_Bothezat
the thing is, all this is actually true and according to the comments the westerners are still clueless. there is this saying: “Russians always patented too late or never did”. more truth behind it than you think…
hahaha the inventions list of russia is much bigger than this
I am rather amuzed by cliche thinking of Americans posting here. Of course not all information presented in this article is quite correct and accurate. Yet many statements (like key roles in laser invention by Prokhorov and Basov and key role of Zvoryking and Rosing in TV invention) is quite correct. Yet Americans are so stupid and used to groupthinking and cliches that instead of just checking their beliefs they prefer to deride anything that fall out their stereotypes.
I would add to this list invention of three-phase systems by Dolivo-Dobrovolsky and invention by Alferov of geterostructures without which modern electronics is impossible (Nobel Prize of 2000).
Yet some statements in this list can be really considered wrong or just absurd like bicycle or steam engine and it can discredit the whole list.
Laser and TV claims are quite correct. It is very simply to ascertain just by checking the list of Nobel Laureats in Physics for invention of lasers (1956) or by reading in Wikipedia who were Rosing and Zvorykin.