10 Inventions You Probably Won't Believe That Came From Russia
Kenneth Coo
Published
09/25/2015
Call it Russia or Soviet Union it still can shock you.
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Battle machine called Tsar Tank. The two front spoked wheels were nearly 9 meters (27 feet) in diameter; the back wheel was smaller, only 1.5 metres (5 feet) high, triple wheel, to ensure maneuverability. The upper cannon turret reached nearly 8 meters high. The hull was 12 metres wide with two more cannons in the sponsons. Additional weapons were also planned under the belly. Each wheel was powered by a 250 hp (190 kW) Sunbeam engine. The big wheels were ok, it's the smaller wheels that made this project redundant. -
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This machine is IG-227 Hailfire from Star Wars, it was heavily inspired by the Tsar Tank. -
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This type of dumbbell is a Russian creation called "giria". It comes from the 17th century and was used by fieldworkers. -
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Nuclear Power Plant. Russians made the first such Plant in 1953, now there are about 388 Nuclear Power Plants in the world. -
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ANS synthesizer. The ANS synthesizer is a photoelectronic musical instrument created by Russian engineer Evgeny Murzin from 1937 to 1957. It was used to make music for many documentary films. -
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Gorodki a bowling type game, in which you throw pieces of wood at other pieces of wood. -
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Hektograph. This is basically a 19th century copy machine. -
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Four player chess. -
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Submarine. The Russian one was not the only one out there but it could go further than any other in 1834. Unfortunately for the inventor bureaucracy killed this invention. -
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7z. Igor Pavlov made this program which fights WinRar for dominance. -
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This way of getting oil. Vasili Semyonov invented this method in 1846.
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