AS THE CAR LEARNED TO WALK

HOW THE CAR LEARNED TO WALKThe shamshurenkov, Kulibin… they started the story of “the uncrowned king” of the XX century — the car. With them and would have to start our story about the “car-themed” in philately. But… their car is still shown in the post thumbnail. Designers of later times were more fortunate. Here, for example, promobil J. cugnot — tricycle. Where now most cars is the engine, stood a two-cylinder steam engine.

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THREE-HEADED TANK “RHEINMETALL”

THREE-HEADED TANK THREE-HEADED TANK The first phase of the German tank building is well known to the reader — it covers the period of the First world war ends 1918. In the description of subsequent phases usually just jump in 1933 in Nazi Germany Might get the impression that between 1918 and 1933 the Germans were not engaged tanks. However, they do the job, the Treaty of Versailles prohibited, just not advertise it. It was in those years was created by a “gross-tractor” — the most interesting of the German war machine 1920-ies.

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NOT POUR, AND INCLUDE

NOT TO POUR, BUT TO INCLUDEMy invention is very simple, but quite important as regards health. The practical need for it — there. It is known that in the sinus, the number of colds and other diseases requires the heating of the nose and maxillary sinuses. Better suited for this UHF-therapy. However, at first, excessive exposure to currents of UHF may prove harmful to the body, and secondly, this equipment is complicated and cumbersome road. Therefore, this method of treatment, despite its advantages (depth of penetration, and disinfecting effect), not very applicable.

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TOPICS? THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!

TOPICS? THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!There is a term the organizers of the innovative and inventive works: “Temnik”, the list of bottlenecks in production. He focuses innovative idea on solving the most relevant to the enterprise or household tasks of mechanization or automation of technological processes. Included this term in recent years in the field of children’s technical creativity. It is not surprising, because the eye becoming more pronounced social trend: young engineers contributing to the development of the national economy.

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HORSES AND TRACTORS IN THE WEHRMACHT

HORSES AND TRACTORS IN THE WEHRMACHTHORSES AND TRACTORS IN THE WEHRMACHTThis is one of the photos since the beginning of the great Patriotic war. Comments can be found in the diaries of the chief of the General staff of the Wehrmacht F. Halder, who noted: “Autumn, and especially winter 1941, unkind met part of the Wehrmacht. Difficulties with the supply of led motorized units in the disabled state, adversely impact on their mobility. Impassable mud were forced to stop even tracked vehicles”. The inability of the automotive transport in these conditions has sharply raised the value of animal-drawn transport in the German army.

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