The surname of this Russian inventor has long been the name of the nominal one for a long time. Mechanic, engineer, great thinker whose braes have remained unpleasant in their native country ... However, who can remember at least one mechanical miracle designed by Kulibin?
Waterport
So Culibine vessel, capable of moving due to the movement of the river. Special wooden wheels twisted the wooden drum on which the rope with anchor was wound. Anchor threw manually upstream. Waterfrost (Kulibin made two ships) moved slowly, but it was allowed to exclude the hellish work of burlakov. Unfortunately, Catherine II found the burlacs in a cheaper "mechanism" - the idea of a great inventor did not receive development
Mechanical prostheses
In 1791, Kulibin presented the world's first mechanical prosthesis to the guarantor Sergey Neppetitsna, who lost his leg above the knee. The project of the inventor was highly appreciated by the St. Petersburg Medical and Surgery Academy, but did not go to production. But in France, in ten years, they settled the serial release of similar prostheses.
Farming machine
It is strange, but one of the most interesting and promising developments of Kulibin has not been launched in production. Optical telegraph has passed the messages by changing the position of the regimes - the receiving station was supposed to be in direct visibility of the transmitting. For this, Kulibin additionally came up with a special towers system.
Kulibin scout
The three-wheeled crew of Kulibin did not fit into his 1791 year. He moved due to the pressure rendered by two passengers on the pedal. Two more passengers could quickly be located in chairs and do not do anything at all. Transmission, clutch, flywheel and brakes - invented by Kulibin Details and today are used on modern cars. The scout developed an impressive speed of 16 km / h.
Lifting chair
Simply put - elevator. The movement of the chair provided two strong men, in turn of moving nuts along the screws. Kulibin himself described his invention as follows: "The device should rise and descend on a perpendicular line, but without any other hazardous imagination; For around those pillars, the wriggling lines of the screws will be approved in the most important way and make some kind of mountain or the fundamental staircase, on what the whole severity of the indentible body, leaning up and down with the weight of the weight for ease, moves on the wheels. " The first and only chair was installed in the Winter Palace of Catherine II.
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