ALL FOR THE CAR

ALL FOR AUTOMOBILEEvery year our industry produces more and more cars. Today while driving to meet a man of almost any profession — the engineer, doctor, architect and worker, farmer and teacher. On how to properly operate the vehicle, i.e. when to change the oil, how to choose candles, what to do in case of certain faults, see the respective manuals and instructions. About the little things, facilitate the daily care of the motorist, they write, unfortunately, is not enough. The purpose of this publication is to some extent fill this gap.

Read more

TACTILE WATCH

HAPTIC CLOCKCreated wristwatches that do not require vision or hearing. Instead of traditional watch hands, the time is indicated by two balls – one indicating minutes (top), and one indicating hours (side). These two balls are connected with magnets of the movement. The watch is made so that even if the balls are moved when touched, they are easily returned to the correct time with a gentle shake of the wrist.

Read more

LEAST FAVORITE SHIPS OF THE KAISER

UNLOVED SHIPS OF THE KAISER1888, the coronation of Wilhelm II, last Emperor of Germany, claim to very much, which has plunged his country into the bloodiest in the entire history of the Earth, war ended in disaster for his country and for himself. The new Emperor considered himself a great connoisseur of the fleet and even the compiled projects of warships (even if only conceptual). It is not surprising that already in the first years of the reign he completely rebuilt the organization of the naval forces, unchallenged which lasted 20 years under the auspices of the land of the generals.

Read more

THREE-WHEELED COMPANION

THREE-SATELLITEMushroom pickers, fishermen and tourists have seen many times on the narrow paths of the forests of the Moscow region a strange structure that appeared as silently and as noiselessly disappeared with a flash of shiny rims of Bicycle wheels. And over these wheels stood a pile of backpacks, bags and baskets. Told that unusual bike has three wheels, but they are located — in contrast to the well-known tricycles — not a triangle, and to each other in one line! We’ve been looking for an unusual bike and its Creator.

Read more

AIR FERRY

AIR FERRYOnce in the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” I read the article “the Farmer’s sloping field.” The air route is very much needed in the highlands. But in nature, there are many horizontal areas, overgrown shrubbery, marshy ravines, through which transportation of cargo is also very difficult. In addition, many farms have often to move cargo over short distances — for example, on farms. For this I suggest using a rope conveyor. It is much easier air road, offers the opportunity to assemble the system on their own, for example, in the workshops of the kolkhoz or sovkhoz.

Read more

CARGO AMPHIBIOUS K-61

CARGO AMPHIBIOUS K-61Overcoming water obstacles by troops in the course of warfare is still one of the most difficult tasks of engineering support of Special importance is its start — up phase, the crossing, that is, overcoming water obstacles with the battle, when the opposite Bank defended by the enemy the Crossing ends with the capture of the vanguard or the first echelon of the advancing troops of the bridgehead, eliminating the possibility of enemy direct fire of ferrying troops.

Read more

CRUISE “DOLPHIN”

WINGED DOLPHINSince the profession of Aviator became popular, there was a need for a training aircraft They were needed for initial pilot training and for maintaining the necessary level of flight training of the personnel of combat units. Since the thirties of the XX century, a whole generation of Soviet pilots passed the initial training on a simple and reliable aircraft Po-2 For advanced training were used Yakovlevskaya UT-1 and UT-2. After the war, under the leadership of Alexander Yakovlev for this purpose has created the Yak-18 and Yak-11.

Read more