History of technology

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.

On March 19 there was a scientific session of the Scientific Council of NTUU "KPI", where a corresponding member of NAS of Ukraine Borys Malynovskyi, who worked more than half a century in the field of computer science and technology, and in recent years has engaged in the history of home comp

The man is the king of nature. This phrase, known to everyone since childhood, has already "had a dry mouth" (especially today, when the nature  "thanks" to our irrational attitude with the earthquakes, hurricanes, the greenhouse effect and other manifestations of its power).

"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.

In December 1881 Swiss businessman Jacob Grether, who lived in Kyiv, bought from the heirs of Colonel Leonovich the right to lifetime use four tithes (about 4.4 ha) state land on the western outskirts of Kyiv - Shulyavka.

For many years, Dovzhenko garden, located on the territory of the National Film Studio, along with the architectural ensemble of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and factories that work in these areas are the symbols of Shulyavka.