Historians say that the sail appeared on land about four thousand years ago! Fiction? No – there is documentary evidence. In 1953 the Italian archaeological expedition at the excavations of the temple of Ptolemy near the town of Medinet MADI discovered the remains of the ancient land of the sailing ship. Designed and manufactured it was under the leadership of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenemhet III (1849 – 1801 BC). It was a rook, which floated on the Nile at first, and then mounted on four wooden wheels. Two four-meter mast stretched colored sails. The inscription found in the desert of basalt polished slab read: “Pharaoh Amenemhet III traveled from here across the desert to Medinet in a sailing boat driven by the wind.”THE WIND SAIL AND… WHEEL
Historians say that the sail appeared on land about four thousand years ago! Fiction? No – there is documentary evidence. In 1953 the Italian archaeological expedition at the excavations of the temple of Ptolemy near the town of Medinet MADI discovered the remains of the ancient land of the sailing ship. Designed and manufactured it was under the leadership of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenemhet III (1849 – 1801 BC). It was a rook, which floated on the Nile at first, and then mounted on four wooden wheels. Two four-meter mast stretched colored sails. The inscription found in the desert of basalt polished slab read: “Pharaoh Amenemhet III traveled from here across the desert to Medinet in a sailing boat driven by the wind.”
In our magazine in 1973 (No. 2 cover No. 3, 4, and 6 — description and recommendations) we talked about the boat “TFA” air cushion, created by Swedish designer, Amateur Cumbersom Gustavson. The publication aroused the interest of many readers.
My car is really similar to a scooter, because her front end and engine (except for the cylinder 8 of PD) — from the “Vyatka”. All other components and parts taken from motorcycles and agricultural aggregates or manufactured in the home workshop.
In recent years the streets and roads of our country are increasingly the miniature machine, in appearance something of a cross between a kid’s scooter, a moped and a scooter. Their drivers are surprisingly deftly maneuver in a city stream, “not getting tangled in the legs” at large, “real” car and motorbike and however not at all inferior to them in speed.
Young machine operators Lotoshinskiy eight-year school, in the Novosibirsk region, from various junk parts built a real pumping station. All summer she poured water on the area school team, and the result was not long in coming. The yield on irrigated land was much higher than before.
The sky is cloudless and warm. In this weather a nice walk around the neighborhood, and even better to ride. You open the door and take out with the help of adults out of the apartment… the car, on the street I put the car on four wheels.
Last spring I made myself water skiing. But to slip on them could rarely, as the role of the tug performed… a motorcycle with a sidecar. The construction of special boats would require a certain cost, powerful engines, and most importantly – time.
This machine is not only powerful and roomy I was able to fairly compactly arrange all of its aggregates, making the frame left plenty of room for the passengers and even any cargo, including bulk or lengthy — it is a body of 250 kg, the trailer for 1 ton and wheeled console.
Existing models of walkers have several major disadvantages: the speed of these machines is usually not more than 8-10 km/h; they move irregularly or are experiencing vibrations in the vertical plane; walking mechanisms are mutually unstable.
Little micro-car “Buddy” machine… for kids. It was created in a laboratory experimental simulation and design Club for young technicians Novosibirsk Akademgorodok. Despite its small size, it all like a real car: engine, transmission, driveshaft, closed rear axle with a differential and other components.