What is this book about
Russia has always been incredibly rich in talented “techies”, we still have a fundamental science, many brilliant ideas are born in our country, but in a strange way, breakthrough inventions rarely bear fruit here. Much more often they flow west and bloom with a lush color there. Why? How did it happen that we were the first to illuminate the streets with electricity, created a radio transmitter and a multi -engine passenger plane, developed transistors and diodes, for decades ahead of the whole world with the idea of a laser – and did not develop these directions first?
Loren Graham, leading a world expert on the history of Russian science, has been teaching at Harvard and MIT for several decades, explores a long history of technological inventions in Russia over the 300-year period, subjecting to thorough analysis of various directions of our science and industry: military technologies, energy, railways, aviation, semiconductor, computers, lasers and much more d …
Author
Graham Loren
Editor
Hooves Olga
Translator
Konstantinova Julia
Publisher
Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, 2014
Genre
Quality management. Innovation
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