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.
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.
March 8th - it is the one of our favorite holidays. Over the years, this holiday exalts the woman, her beauty, tenderness and love, something changed and transformed into various socio-political forms.
Perhaps there’s no polytechnics who would not know about Carnot's theorem, according to which the efficiency of the Carnot heat engine does not depend on the nature of the working fluid.
January 19 marks 270 years since the birth of James Watt (1736-1819), English inventor, whose name is called watt power unit. Improvement of the steam engine made by Watt, was one of the most outstanding events in the history of technology.
Ask almost anybody today - who is depicted on the banknotes of the United States, certainly you will hear - US presidents.
"The tobacco pandemic - a contagious disease that is transmitted through advertising, through smokers and through the smoke, non-smokers are exposed to whose actions, especially children," Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director General of the World Health Organization, 1999.
The English Queen Anne once visited the famous Greenwich Observatory. The Queen was unpleasantly surprised when she learned what a small salary director of the observatory gets, and wished to increase it.
