7 inventions that we forgot to patent

The ideas of Russian inventors have transformed the world, but where do not have time to hurry up, once ashamed to disturb the "important" people, something prevented to obtain a patent. So the authorship of the great inventions go to the West.

1. Car

In 1751 Shamshurenkov Leonti, a skilled mechanic of people, produced by state order "samobegluyu carriage" move without any outside force. Shamshurenkovu reward given fifty rubles. The subsequent fate is unknown to historians stroller. 18 years later, in 1769, the Frenchman Nicolas Kunio presents all over the world such a device. It's a shame, Kunio Frenchman knows the whole world, our designer name forgotten!

2. The steam locomotive

Russia's first two-cylinder steam engine vacuum, simply put the locomotive was designed mechanic Ivan Polzunova in 1763. On the test machine, which took place in Barnaul, only a year, attended by James Watt. The idea he really liked ... In April, 1784 in London, he was able to obtain a patent for a steam engine with a universal motor. Member of the Commission for Reception invention Polzunova, James Watt is considered to be its inventor.

3. Anesthesia

The phrase "woke up - plaster" - perfectly illustrates the medical practice Nikolai Pirogov. In 1850, the great surgeon for the first time in the history of medicine began to operate on the wounded with ether anesthesia in the field. Total Pirogov spent about 10 000 operations under ether anesthesia. He first started using the Russian medicine plaster for the treatment of fractures.

4. Bike

In 1801, the fortress inventor Yefim Artamonov at the Nizhniy Tagil plant built the first all-metal two-wheeled pedal scooter, which is then called a bicycle ... Then, in 1818, when will be given a patent for this invention to the German Baron Karl Draize!

5. Robot

The great Russian mathematician Chebyshev Pafnutii in 1860 failed, as it seemed improbable: to calculate and develop a "structure straight circulation mechanisms without wheelsets, on the principle of step." The device was named plantigrade machine. This car with full confidence can be considered the grandmother of the current Japanese robots!

6. The radio

Chronicle radio Russian history is as follows: May 7, 1895 Alexander Popov for the first time publicly demonstrated transmission and reception of radio signals from a distance. In 1896 - he passed the world's first wireless message. And in 1897 - established the possibility of radar using wireless telegraphy. However, in Europe and America, it is believed that the radio invented by the Italian Guglielmo Marconi in the same 1895. And try to prove otherwise!

7. Incandescent

The device, known as the "Edison bulb," nothing more than a refined izobrenie Alexander Lodygina. Member of the Russian Technical Society back in 1870 proposed the use of the lamps and tungsten filament spinning filament in a spiral form. Edison did so only in 1879, that did not prevent him to get a patent for an incandescent lamp.