Recently, the Foucault pendulum, which is considered to be the fifth most important natural experiment that changed the world, was opened at our university. But what are the others? This is exactly what this publication is dedicated to.
It seems, that pragmatic Europeans actually always have been romantic. Even in the XIX century, which is sometimes called "the age of steam and electricity", they tried in every way to decorate their life.
Expansion of the training scale of specialists exacerbated personnel problem, required to improve the work of the teaching staff. At that time at the Institute there were worked such outstanding scientists: academicians K.K. Hrenov, N.N. Dobrokhotov, F.P. Belyankin, B.S.
Modern war - it's not just war of tanks, aircraft, manpower, this along with everything else, as well war of scientific laboratories.
Academic I.V. Kurchatov
Lev Izrailevich Horlytskyy is the earliest explorer of a new kind of weapon - self-propelled guns (SPG). He is the chief designer of SPG: SU-122, SU-85, SU-100, which were taken up in 1942-1944 and have proven to be very effective fighting machine.
April 12, 1961 Soviet citizen Yuri Gagarin on the spaceship "Vostok" for the first time in human history has made space flight. The news of this event immediately spread through the entire planet.
I will not hide that I was honored to have the opportunity to attend and speak at this important event, although held it was held in our own KPI, but without exaggeration, it is necessary to talk about an event of national importance. I am referring to the opening of 24 February 2011, I repeat, in Ukraine, this Foucault pendulum.
As every holiday New Year has its own attributes. It is even difficult to imagine New Year greeting card or some New Year issue of the newspaper without such items, as Santa Claus , Christmas tree and Christmas decorations, frosted windows and the snowflakes, the clock and the candles.
One of the most famous symbols of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 is famous "Katyusha" – the fighting vehicle of rocket artillery.
Of all the pieces exhibited in the Department of Aviation and Astronautics State Polytechnic Museum, the viewers’ attention is attracted by the lander of spacecraft "Voskhod", which had been in space.
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.
