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A brief review of main works and achievements of Leon Serge Theremin is presented, outstanding Soviet inventor, creator of the world's first musical instrument - Aetherphon, rhythmicon, terpsiton. They also developed the world's first mechanical television system the large-interlaced scanning mirror, a number of burglar alarms and devices for special purposes. The information about the pedigree Theremin, the interesting facts of his life and work, including details of his schooling, culture amateur radio, university education, serving in the army during World War I, works at the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute, touring performances in Europe and the U.S., as well as features use his instrument and apparatus for intruder alarm. Theremin described contacts with famous composers, artists, scientists, the specificity of its intelligence activities, work in the imprisonment and personal life in recent years.

A brief overview of the main achievements of Semen Isidorovich Kataeva, Honored Scientist of the RSFSR, the creator of the national television school, the author of over 200 publications and inventions, including a prototype iconoscope, high vacuum receiving electronic tubes, ways to change the screen brightness by using exposure to light polarization, as well as the transmission system of clear television image on a narrowband channel and the television standard with decomposition at 625 lines. The data about parents, children and youth of Kataeva, interesting facts from his life and work, including details of education, practical electronic TV and a scientific and pedagogical work at the Department of MTUCI television now bears his name. Presents interesting facts from the history of television-related contributions in this direction P.V. Shmakov, V.K. Zworykin and S.V. Nowakowski. S.I. Kataev substantiated the idea of creating a space of communication and phototelevision equipment for the reverse side of the Moon pictures.

A review of the major achievements of Charles Augustin Coulomb, a prominent French scientist, the founder of the teachings of the strength of materials, friction and electrostatic, the author of many scientific papers, including fundamental in the field of electricity and inventor of the torsion-tactile balance. Data on parents Coulomb interesting facts of his life and work, including details of education, hobbies mathematics and scientific research, as well as military service in the Royal Engineers. Here are the facts of the housekeeping and social activities in the Coulomb end of XVIII - early XIX centuries, his participation in the creation of a unified system of measures and subsequent international recognition of his services. The designs of several instruments designed for electrostatic Coulomb studies considered prerequisites for the development of concepts of electric charges, which have become the basis for the withdrawal of Coulomb interaction and their units of measurement that are named after him.

A brief overview of the life and work of Boris Pavlovich Grabowski, an outstanding Soviet inventor, the creator of the world's first real acting, fully-electronic television installation "telephot". Data on parents BP Grabowski, interesting facts from his childhood hobbies in Kharkov Komsomol youth in Kyrgyzstan and first success Uzbekistan. Based on the memoirs of the events partners, details of creating and testing "telephot" in Saratov, Moscow, Leningrad, its creators love with BL Rosing and finishing works in Tashkent. Studied the reasons for "telephot" was unclaimed and forgotten for many years to the device, and the circumstances leading up to the international recognition of the merits of BP Grabowski, the author of 12 inventions and 50 certificates of nomination, Honored inventor of the Uzbek SSR.

A brief overview of the main achievements of Pavel Vasilyevich Shmakov, one of the pioneers, the moat of Soviet television, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the State Prize of the honored worker of science and technology. Data on parents P.V. Shmakov, interesting facts of his life and work, including details of his education, hobbies physics, astronomy, works in the laboratories of the P.N. Lebedev and P.P. Lazarev contact with M.V. Shuleikin, as well as educational activities. Presents interesting facts about the history of the mechanical television-related contributions in this area, John Baird and Paul Nipkow. Describes the direction of works performed by the Department of Television Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute of Communications, including e-mail, and color TV as well as the possible impact of television on smell and touch the person. From 1937 to 1982 he headed the department of  P.V. Shmagin, he is the author of 12 inventions and more than 250 scientific publications, including 25 books and brochure.

A brief review of main works and achievements of Leon Serge Theremin is presented, outstanding Soviet inventor, creator of the world's first musical instrument - Aetherphon, rhythmicon, terpsiton. They also de-veloped the world's first mechanical television system the large-interlaced scanning mirror, a number of burglar alarms and devices for special purposes. The information about the pedigree Theremin, the interesting facts of his life and work, including details of his schooling, culture amateur radio, military service, uni-versity education, works at the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute, touring performances in Europe and the U.S., as well as features use his instrument and apparatus for intruder alarm. Theremin described contacts with famous composers, artists, scientists, the specificity of its intelligence activities, work in the im-prisonment and life in recent years.

A brief overview of the life and works of the main achievements of Alexander M. Poniatoff is given. He was an outstanding engineer and founder of AMPEX – American company that won the world recognition in the field of magnetic recording of signals. The description of life AM Poniatowa in childhood and youth, his education in Russia and Germany, in the imperial service, and the "white" army, emigration and employ-ment in the United States, including the establishment of the company AMPEX details and interesting facts from its progressive development into a global leader audio and video equipment. The AMPEX engineers created the world's first tape recorders and videotape recorders of professional quality, which contributed to the radical improvement of the radio and television broadcasting technologies. Twelve development AMPEX awarded prizes Emmy Awards, awarded by the American Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the four recognized as the best in the category Monitor Awards International Society of television pro-duction.

A brief review of the major achievements Alessandro Volta, outstanding Italian scientist and physicist, in-ventor of a fundamentally new source of electrical energy, which played a decisive role in future studies of electric and magnetic phenomena. Provides information about the parents Volta, interesting facts from his life and work, including details of his self-education and pedagogical work. Given the facts of the history of the development of electrical engineering associated with contributions to this line of Benjamin Franklin, France Aepinus and Johan Wilcke. Describes the design features of the two instruments, Volta invented for electrical studies and discussions with Luigi Galvani. Volta was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society, in his honor erected a pantheon of other monuments in the city of Como, and named unit of voltage and potential difference – Volt.

A brief review of the major achievements of Andre-Marie Ampere, a prominent French scholar and the founder of electrodynamics and the author of fundamental works in the field of chemistry, biology, linguis-tics, and philosophy. Provides information about the parents Ampere, interesting facts from his life and work, including details of his self-education, interest in mathematics, chemistry and teaching. Some interest-ing facts from the history of electrodynamics associated with contributions in this direction Hans Oersted, Francois Arago and Augustin Fresnel. The designs of the two instruments, invented by Ampere for electrodynamic research and discussions with the opponents of the emerging science. Given the introduction of preconditions Ampe rum concepts of voltage, current, and its direction, which became the basis for the withdrawal of Ampere law of interaction of currents, which now bears his name.

A brief overview of the main stages and events in the development of photographic equipment and film with the details of the experiments of Joseph Niépce, Louis Daguerre, William Talbot, as well as the contribution of domestic scientists and amateurs in the spread of this technology in Russia. The baton of Joseph Petzval continued photos, Frederick Archer, inventors SLR Thomas Sutton, design instant Shutter Sigismund Yurkovski and films on a flexible substrate George Eastman. Some interesting facts from the history of cinema related contributions in this direction by George Eastman, Thomas Edison, the Lumière brothers and Pate, Eusebius Goldovsky and Victor Komar. Describes the date of the history of photographic and cinema in the twentieth century, including details of occurrence stereo and digital audio-visual equipment, until the appearance and standardization of digital cinema.

A brief overview of the main achievements of the doctor of sciences, professor and inventor Sergey V. Novakovsky, an outstanding Soviet and Russian engineers and scientists, under whose leadership has begun implementation of electronic television in the USSR. Sergey made an outstanding contribution to the reconstruction of the Moscow television center and the introduction of broadcast TV standard 625 lines. He was a pioneer in the creation of our country mobile television stations for outside broadcast, more than two decades was initiated and led the development of color television and studio cameras, video monitors, color TVs, including a projection for the big screen. Some interesting facts about the life and work of Sergey Vasilyevich, including details of working contacts with renowned experts on television and teaching. Achievements Sergey V. Novakovsky won many state and departmental awards.

A brief overview of the major achievements of Hermann von Helmholtz, the eminent German physicist, and physiologist, whose name is inextricably linked to a radical reconstruction of physiological concepts among scientists of XIX century. Helmholtz has made a significant contribution to the mechanics, thermodynamics, optics, acoustics, electrodynamics, physiology and medicine, first formulated in mathematical form and substantiated universality of the law of conservation of energy. Provides the information about the parents and children of the Helmholtz, interesting facts of his life and work, including details of study, teaching and research work as an experimental physicist, as well as contact with his prominent contemporaries. Achievements Helmholtz marked the highest awards of the Royal Society of Great Britain (gold medal Copley), the Order of the " Schwarzen Adler" Kingdom of Prussia, the star of the French Order of the Legion of Honor, and others. His name are memorable prize medals from several institutions, Moscow Research Institute of Eye Diseases, craters on the Moon and Mars.

A brief overview of the major achievements of Georg Simon Ohm, the eminent German physicist, opened in 1826, the fundamental law of electrical circuits, which bears his name, and gave him a theoretical foundation. In the results of their research ohm speaker was concluded that the timbre of the sound is the result of the harmonic components of the signal, it is formulated in the form which later became known acoustic Ohm's law. Provides information about parents and brothers Ohm, interesting facts of his life and work, including details of study, teaching and research work as an experimental physicist. Achieve the Ohm were marked in 1841 the highest award of the Royal Society of Great Britain - Copley gold medal followed by the election of a member of this society. Ohm was awarded the Order of the Bavarian "For outstanding achievements in the field of science," his bust is in the Memorial of Glory in Munich. Ohm's name is called unit of electrical, University of applied sciences in Nuremberg and a crater on the side of the Moon.

A brief review of main works and achievements of Jack S. Kilby is presented, outstanding US inventor, the author of more than 60 patents, awarded in 2000 the Nobel Prize in Physics for his basic work on infor-mation and communication technology, one of the founders of the first integrated circuit. They also devel-oped the first thermal printer, miniature calculator with built-in thermal print head and the experimental work carried out to facilitate the organization of production of integrated microelectronics in the United States. Information is given about the parents J.S. Kilby, the interesting facts of his life and work, includ-ing details in school, his hobbies amateur radio, military service, university education, working for miniaturization of electronics in the laboratory Centralab, Texas Instruments Incorporated and its patent dispute with Robert Noyce, inventor of the other integrated circuits. Kilby described contacts with colleagues, his awards and to memory of Kilby.