Ivan Petrovich Biography

Having received a strict Old Believer education, Ivan early mastered the letter and began to help his father in the shop. In adolescence, Ivan Kulibin studied the locksmith, turning and hourly business. From the second half of the 10ths, he studied and constructed complex clock mechanisms and other “mechanical wonders”. In the year, after the death of his father, Ivan Kulibin opened an ongoing workshop in Nizhny Novgorod.

In the years, Kulibin made a watch the size of a goose egg from the details now this device is located in a meeting of the State Hermitage. The automatic egg performed several melodies and, in addition to the dial, had the sash that open every hour, behind which metal figures played Easter scenes. In the year, having received these hours as a gift, Empress Catherine II appointed Ivan Kulibin as the head of the mechanical workshop of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and Arts in St.

Petersburg. Under the supervision of Kulibin, the instrumental, turning, locksmith, barometered chambers, which supported the instruments and tools of the academy. Kulibin independently studied mechanics, physics, chemistry and mathematics, developed new methods of grinding the glass for optical devices, tried himself in writing OD and continued to engage in invention.

In years, Kulibin worked on huge telescopes and an electric machine, and also created a microscope. In the year, Kulibin designed the first single -melted wooden bridge a length of meters through the Neva, the successful tests of the model of which were held at the end of the year. For this project, Catherine II granted the mechanics of a nominal gold medal for wearing on the St.

Andrew's tape. Ivan Kulibin refused the noble title, as this would require him to renounce the Old Believers. True, the bridge was never built - like a three -seal iron bridge developed by Kulibin later. In the year, Kulibin demonstrated another technical miracle that became the precursor of the spotlight - a “mirror lantern” with a parabolic reflector of the smallest mirrors, which gave a large light light effect with a weak light source.

Subsequently, Kulibin lanterns were used to cover workshops, ships, on lighthouses and in many other places. In the year, Kulibin left the post of head of the workshop and devoted himself entirely to invention. In years, he was a member of the free economic community, then he returned to his native Nizhny Novgorod. In the year, I. Kulibin made a “selfless” carpet of a cycle car, which was driven by a person through the pedal mechanism.

In it, he used a fly wheel, a brake, a box of speeds, springs and even rolling bearings. Kulibin developed a design of prostheses - “mechanical legs” for the Veteran of the Ochakovo Battle. In the year, Kulibin built an elevator with a screw mechanism that was installed in the Winter Palace. For a long time, Kulibin worked on the creation of mechanical vessels to work on rivers - waterways capable of going against the current.

Although the test was successful, Kulibin’s ships were never putting into practice - Burlatsky traction cost cheaper. At the end of his life, the master worked on the problem of creating an eternal engine, spending all his savings. Ivan Petrovich Kulibin died on July 30 in Nizhny Novgorod, was buried in the Petropavlovsk cemetery now Kulibin Park. The vast majority of the technical solutions of I.

Kulibin, who far ahead of their time, were not realized. Today, the surname Kulibin has become a household: the so-called self-taught masters who have achieved great success in their business. Ivanova V. Ivan Petrovich Kulibin - a brief pointer of literature. Gorky, Kochin N. Gorky: Gorky. Pipunirov V. Ivan Petrovich Kulibin, -