The famous English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, military engineer, a close friend of Newton - Edmund Halley (actually Halley - Halley) was born on October 29,1656 in the town of Hagerston (near London) ,the son of a prosperous soap-maker.
Professor of machinery and apparatus of chemical and petroleum industries (MACPI) Igor O. Mikulonok, better known among students as deputy rector for scientific and pedagogical (educational direction), the results of the 2005/2006 school year was named best inventor of the University.
Warsaw University of Technology has 30 000 students that are trained by 2 000 teachers. Future architects, businessmen and managers, specialists in mathematics, computer science, biology, chemical, transport and many others are prepared here.
Name Sadi Carnot often sounds in different classrooms of our university. "The ideal Carnot engine", "Carnot cycle", "Carnot's principle", "Carnot's theorem" ...
When several of our outstanding scientists were asked to name the three greatest, in their view, physicists of all time,their opinions devided, but none of them forgot Maxwell.
Up to the XIII century, people knew only nine chemical elements: seven metals - gold, silver, copper, tin, iron, lead and mercury, as well as two non-metals - sulfur and carbon.
The more rare exhibits the more interesting the exhibition. In the "Electronics" section of State Polytechnic Museum the attention is attracted by the world's first ultrasonic motor, which was developed in Ukraine in the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. The history is as follows.