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  • How to run a rocket
  • Russian father of space flights
  • Who invented telegraph?
  • Son of a priest
  • Self-made public leader and inventor
  • His ambition was to help disabled people
  • Genius never understood in his lifetime
  • Family business
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  • Leonardo da Vinci, who lived in the 15th century, was a famous painter, architect and scientist. Today he is best known for his art, especially for the world's most famous Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Da Vinci believed that art was closely connected with science and nature. He never went to school, but for self-education he filled dozens of secret notebooks with his theories about different branches of science. Unfortunately, people who lived next to him never understood his genius - the combination of intellect and imagination that allowed him to create, at least on paper, such inventions as the bicycle, the helicopter and the airplane.
  • Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a Russian physicist and the theoretical father of rocketry, was born in 1857. All his life he worked as a school teacher, but he was really keen on physics, astronomy and space flights. He created his theory of space flights and worked out the theory of a multistage rocket. Although he carried out some experiments with steam engines, pumps and fans in his home laboratory, his strength lay in theoretical work. Tsiolkovsky's writings had a powerful influence on Valentin Glushko and Sergei Korolev, who would lay the foundations for the Soviet space program.
  • Nikola Tesla was born in Croatia in 1856. His father was a priest and his mother was a farmer. Tesla studied Maths, physics and later philosophy in university. In 1884 he arrived in America and started working for Thomas Edison. Tesla was a really successful engineer and very soon he got his own lab, where Nikola studied electricity. He invented a lot of equipment to study electricity, experimented with X-rays, gave demonstrations of radio communication, piloted a radio-controlled boat, created the first modern power station.
  • Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright grew up in Ohio. USA. Though they didn't go to college, they were very talented engineers. Before flying their plane they ran a bicycle repair and sales shop. They also constructed their own bicycles. All their profits and free time they spent on designing an airplane. On December 17, 1903 the first flight of the airplane called "Wright Flyer" took place. During the next few years, the brothers developed more sophisticated planes. They later formed the Wright Company, which built and sold their airplanes.
  • One of the leading figures of American history, Benjamin Franklin \(1706\-1790\) was a politician, author, publisher, scientist, inventor and diplomat. He was bom in Boston. The family was not very rich and Benjamin had little formal education. He started his career in printing business and became wealthy. He was a very active public person and helped to open a library, a hospital and a college in the town where he lived. Later he helped to write the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. He also gave a lot of time to science and experiments. A lot of his research was devoted to electricity, ocean currents and meteorology. He even invented his own musical instrument called the glass harmonica.
  • Alexander Graham Bell \(1847\-1922\), an American scientist, who was born in Scotland, is known as the inventor of the telephone. Bell followed his father's footsteps and worked at a school for the deaf as a speech teacher. While teaching he experimented with various devices to help the deaf learn to speak. In 1874 the idea of the telephone formed in his mind. Bell was sure that it would be possible to transmit speech telegraphically. For the rest of his life Bell worked hard to develop the practical telephone. Using his wealth he did his best to help the deaf to be integrated into society.
  • Guglielmo Marconi \(1874\-1937\), an Italian inventor and engineer, invented and demonstrated the first successful telegraph and in 1901 broadcast the first transatlantic radio signal. His radios ended the isolation of ocean travel and saved hundreds of lives, including all of the surviving passengers from the sinking Titanic. Guglielmo Marconi was born in 1874 in Bologna, Italy. He was educated by tutors, then at the Livorno Technical Institute and the University of Bologna. When Marconi heard about "invisible
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