V.P. Glushko - the founder of the Soviet liquid rocket engines. But his first was electro-jet engine (ERE). The power in it arises due to instantaneous evaporation of thin strips of metal by heating them with electric currents.
The history of humanity is comparable to the rapid flow of water, historical materials not stored by society or its individual personalities disappear like a fallen leaf that falls into this stream.
Among the giant aircraft that were built at different times in different countries of the world, a place of honor belongs to structures created in Ukraine.
December 17, 2003 was one hundred years from the time when the brothers Orvill and Wilbur Wright made the first manned flight on the airplane engine "Flayer -1". The range of the first flight was 37 meters and it lasted 12 seconds. That brief flight opened a new era in human history.
This spring, fate leaded us to graduator of KPI Valery Ivanovich Dzyubak. Many years ago Dzyubak family lived in a house with Natalia Sorokina in Pechersk. It was a lonely older woman, she came to Kyiv from Novgorod-Seversky after the revolution of 1917 and got to work Kyiv CID.
"Many people think that I'm busily about the rocket and care about its fate for the rocket itself. It would be a grave mistake - wrote Tsiolkovsky. – The rocket for me is just the way only, a method of penetration into the depths of space, but not an end in itself.
1955. Space? Sputnik? These words belonged to science fiction. And although geophysical rocket rose into the sky higher and higher, and even for few minutes reached the comic heights, it was hard to believe that the space age will come so soon.
Fifty year is a long time to evaluate the meaning of the breakthrough to the space (the launch of the first artificial satellite of the Earth) and step by step analyze the history of successive accumulation of the data to penetrate the Universe.
The movie is about the life of world-known mathematician Mykhailo Kravchuk, his fighting against misfortune, his achievements and discoveries, especially about his work in Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
The Kostantin Oleksandrovich Kalinin portrait occupied the honorary place in the gallery of outstanding graduates Kyiv Polytechnic. And this place belongs to him by the right. However not everyone today remembers what this person is famous for.
