To make it easier for everyone interested to get acquainted with these book marks, the librarians have created a separate collection in the Digital Library of Kyiv Polytechnic. The digital library page is available 24/7 - this electronic resource can be used at any convenient time.
The history of the library of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute dates back more than a century. Many unique rarities have been preserved here. A fund of rare and valuable documents has been formed for ten years. One of the fund's collections is especially valuable.
The library of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was replenished not only by purchasing books and periodicals, but also by gifts. One of such gifts is books from Professor I.I. Rachmaninoff's own library.
The Department of rare and valuable documents of G. I. Denysenko Scientific and Technical Library of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute stores not only books on natural and technical sciences. There are also philosophical, socio-economic publications and fiction.
A steam engine is an engine in which the chemical energy of fuel is converted into the mechanical energy through the use of steam, which is formed when water is heated.
Means of computer technology have appeared for a long time. Originally, they were counting sticks and pebbles (in Latin - calculi), subsequently the abacus and counters appeared.
At the beginning of the new school year in the hall of rare and valuable documents of G. I. Denisenko the Scientific and Technical Library opened the exhibition "Physics through the ages".
The chemical branch of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute was opened in 1898. His first dean became the famous chemist Mikhail Ivanovich Konovalov (the one who discovered the "reaction of Konovalov").
Four books that will be of interest to historians of technology, came at the end of last year, the Fund of rare and valuable books the Scientific and technical library. G. I. Denisenko of our the University.
The prominent English scientist Michael Faraday studied only in elementary school, and the first idea about science received from the popular science books and lectures.
