The world's first helicopter and revolutionary technology for Hollywood: 5 famous inventions of Ukrainians

We know that someone will count many more things, inventions, and achievements of Ukrainians, and we will be sincerely happy about that. And we dream that our compatriots will “invent”, create and build another 5 thousand different useful things. In the meantime, we will be glad that thanks to the Ukrainians and people from Ukraine, there are things without which we now cannot imagine our life, writes The Odessa Journal.

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Solving the problem of packing spheres in 8 dimensions

Experienced mathematicians from all over the world have “fought” for this important task, which helps to correct errors in mobile phones, the Internet and space exploration. On March 14, 2016, the world of mathematics received an extraordinary surprise for Pi Day, when Marina Vyazovskaya, a thirty-year-old woman from Kiev, Doctor of Natural Sciences, posted in arXiv a solution to the problem of packing spheres in eight dimensions. Her proof shows that the root lattice 8 is the densest packing of spheres in eight dimensions, with a beautiful and conceptually simple argument.

The solution took her two years, spans 23 pages, is considered “stunningly simple” by the scientific community and was awarded the prestigious Salem Prize. Marina has now been invited to work at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne. Her story is on ForumDaily.

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WhatsApp

Jan Kum was born in a small Ukrainian provincial town in the late 70s. His family was the most ordinary and unremarkable: his father was a builder, his mother was a housewife. Childhood was not easy, because the family lived more than modestly. Then came the collapse of the Soviet Union and the difficult years of perestroika. Jan's father died after a long illness. Part-time work did not bring a stable income to the young man; his mother could not get a job due to her age. Then it was decided to sell everything possible and collect all the savings to move to America. It took two years to prepare for the move, during which the boy studied English and took private lessons to “pull up” his knowledge. The family moved to a town called Mountain View.

He was an ordinary employee of a computer company, one of several thousand. But on February 24, 2009, he founded WhatsApp Inc. in California. More about him read in the material ForumDaily.

Unique filming of the Oscar-winning "Titanic"

It was Anatoly Kokush, a native of Kerch, who suggested the director James Cameron to "attach" cameras to moving objects and thus enhance the visual effects. Ukrainian technologies were used in all famous films: from Taxi and Troy to Harry Potter and Ocean's Twelve.

However, this is little known in Ukraine. With equipment invented and designed by Kokush himself and in his studio, more than 300 films, many commercials, the best concerts, shows and sports competitions around the world have been shot.

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Anatoly Kokush was born in 1951 in Kerch. Graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Film Engineers with a degree in engineering. After graduating from the institute (since 1974), he worked as a designer at the Dovzhenko film studio, then in 1990 he founded his own enterprise - the Filmotekhnik company, which is a unique combination of a design bureau and a workshop.

For his work, Anatoly Kokush twice received the world's highest cinematic award, the Oscar.

Dance Academy at the Grand Opera in Paris

The most famous ballet school was founded by an outstanding dancer, choreographer Serge Lifar.

Was born on April 2, 1905 in Kiev. He sang in the church choir of St. Sophia Cathedral and dreamed of becoming a pianist. He got to the ballet school by accident. At the age of 17, Serge Lifar immigrated to Paris, where he lived all his life, but until the end of his days he considered himself a Ukrainian.

Serge Lifar is a great dancer of the last century. Premier dancer of the Russian Ballet and favorite student of Sergei Diaghilev. For more than 30 years, Lifar worked at the Paris Grand Opera as a premier ballet dancer, first and then as a choreographer and choreographer.

As founder of the Institute of Choreography in Paris and the University of Dance, he taught history and theory of dance at the Sorbonne and was also honorary president of the International Dance Council, which maintains relations with UNESCO. The French mint instituted a medal in his honor. He has created over 200 ballets and developed his own training system for ballet dancers.

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Helicopter

One day, a young Kyiv boy who read Jules Verne’s novel “Robourg the Conqueror” had a dream that he was on board a ship. He imagined that he was entering a luxurious cabin, and from the windows he could see a sea island with green trees far below. The boy did not know that his dream would come true thirty years later - that he would be on board an amphibious aircraft created by himself. His name is Igor Sikorsky.

The young Sikorsky's most successful project was a large four-engine aircraft, which he named "Ilya Muromets" in honor of the legendary Russian folk hero. He completed it in 1913. Tsar Nicholas II, who personally inspected the ship, presented Sikorsky with a gold watch with diamonds for his efforts.

Sikorsky left Russia after the Bolshevik revolution. He arrived in New York in 1919 with $ 600 in his name and a royal gold watch in his pocket. Here he began a second career as an aircraft designer in 1923 and founded the Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation on a Long Island chicken farm owned by another Russian. Here Sikorsky produced twin-engine seaplanes.

After several successful years and several experimental models, Sikorsky found that a single propeller mounted vertically on the tail of an aircraft worked best, and on January 14, 1942, Sikorsky himself piloted the first successful helicopter test flight in America. More about Igor Sikorsky told in our material.

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