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1. Lasers? Invented by Soviets? 2. Vladimir Zworykin was a Soviet scientist? Really? 3. First soviet nuclear power plant was highly classified. First commerci
by PerfectDlite 9y ago
1. Lasers? Invented by Soviets?
2. Vladimir Zworykin was a Soviet scientist? Really?
3. First soviet nuclear power plant was highly classified. First commercial nuclear power plant was created in US.
4. Artificial heart - for a dog. Not for a human.
5. And as for microwave oven in 1941 - is this another Russian myth?
- arethuza 9y ago"The world's first commercial nuclear power station, Calder Hall at Windscale, England, was opened in 1956" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power
- oscii 9y agoThat's commercial achievement, not scientific. The Obninsk power plant has been connected to a grid in 1954. It is useless to assess commercial achievements of the country which didn't have commerce at all. And in general, the question "who was the first" is unproductive, as science doesn't have nationality.
- PerfectDlite 9y ago> The Obninsk power plant has been connected to a grid in 1954 Are you aware that Obninsk was a "closed" city and wasn't marked on the Soviet maps initially? So whole town was classified, among the power plant.
- arethuza 9y agoWell, I'm from the UK and I've heard it repeated often enough that Calder Hall was the first nuclear plant to generate power - so I did a search to confirm it and found that wiki page. It's actually quite interesting that the Soviets had an earlier one - I guess the page should be updated?
- oscii 9y agoSir, you don't have mind discipline. You started off from the subject "scientific achievements" and ended up with "commercial achievements", so the discussion with you will be boring.
- PerfectDlite 9y agoI've said "scientific achievements "made in USSR" which ordinary people still use in their daily lives" So, yes, basically - commercial achievements for ordinary people.
- oscii 9y agoIt appears that you simply don't understand the definition of the word "science", nor the meaning of "scientific". Thus your posts mix up "science", "innovation" and "commerce". You can't measure USSR in terms of "commercial success", as there were no commerce.
- PerfectDlite 9y agoOk, let's talk about scientific success in USSR. I'd like to see sources to lasers, microwave ovens and TVs which were invented by Soviets.
- oscii 9y agoMicrowave: you can look for the excerpts from the magazine "Trud" from 13 June 1941 (in Russian). Scientists explained their experiments with using ultra-high frequency waves for heating up meat. Lasers, TVs: check my previous answer. If you want to know more about scientific success in USSR, please find yourself a course on history and philosophy of science / informatics. Soviet scientists did a lot contributions to the scientific community, including in such areas like chemistry, cybernetics, neurophysiology, psychology among others, just like any other big country in the world. I was particularly interested in the history of sound synthesis in the 1930s, which I personally find fascinating (Evgeny Scholpo, Arseny Avraamov, Boris Yankovsky). They basically implemented spectral resynthesis and wavetable techniques using light and film! The sad thing is that this history has been stocking in archives until someone accidentally found them.