Originally Posted by jsh1120";p=&quot

Can't say without knowing your age. I'm guessing 12.

Originally Posted by MaxFromRussia";p=&quot

1. Space flights. On April, 12th 1961 Jury Gagarin on a spacecraft of the Russian engineer Korolev became the first person departed in space. And now Russia is the leader in space technologies. If you are going to fly in space more cheaply and more reliably to fly on Russian spacecraft "SOUZ-2", than on a space shuttle. By the way on "SOUZ-2" there are tickets …

2. TV. The idea of transfer of the image (TV) has been offered and patented by Russian scientist Boris Rozing on July, 25th 1907. The idea of the TV set (CRT) has been offered by Russian engineer Zvorykin in the USA (the application 683337 from December, 29th 1923 on the patent in the USA), but the application for the similar device Russian engineer Kataev earlier has submitted to the USSR (the application from September, 24th 1931)

3. Electric Lamp. In 1872 the Russian engineer Lodygin has made an application on the patent ¹ 1619, from July, 11th 1874 on an electric lamp. In 1876 at the Parisian exhibition the Russian engineer Jablochkov receives the first-ever patent for the invention of an electric lamp without a regulator. Thomas Edison in 1880 only has replaced in lamp of Lodygin a coal string on tungstic.

4. Radio. The idea belongs to the Russian engineer Popovu, the first the patent has received Marconi in UK. Priests has published the description of the device in 1895, Marconi has taken the patent only on June, 2nd, 1896

5. A hydrogen bomb. On August, 12th, 1953 on range in Semipalatinsk the first-ever hydrogen bomb has been tested. (yes-yes. I was not mistaken. The USA have blown up the hydrogen device earlier, but this device could not be shipped aboard the plane).

7. Kalashnikov's automatic device. The most mass and the popular weapon in the world. Kalashnikov's automatic device has rendered greater influence on a course of world history, than a nuclear bomb. Kalashnikov's automatic device the only thing in the world the automatic weapon represented on a flag the countries (Mozambique).

8. Armor T-34. " If Russian have not invented T-34 all Europe would speak in German ". One of the main elements of tank T-34 was transmission of American engineer Christie which has been rejected by the Ministry of Defence of the USA, but the combination of reliability, capacities of arms, mass character and has made cheapnesss of manufacture by its best armor of WWII.

Originally Posted by BoogiePeople";p=&quot

You forgot the most important one....vodka.

Originally Posted by Sadistic-Savior";p=&quot

Oh c'mon. Everyone knows the Irish invented Alcohol.

Originally Posted by f100supersabr";p=&quot

Vodka was actually a Ukrainian "invention" ( development is more accurate) and known as 'horeilka".

Originally Posted by Grond";p=&quot

in comparison to SALO

Originally Posted by f100supersabr";p=&quot

Now if my learning of history is correct, and I am sure that my teachers in American did not lie, the space program for the USSR was the brain child of Germans. My father used to say that we have our ( nashi Niemchti) Germans ( von Braun) and the Soviets theirs !!!

So the space race was Nazi vs Nazi and the Nazi's won ha ha

Actually the race for space was the chiild of Goddard an American ROCKETMAN !!!