Inventions that shook the world

Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers»...
... made a rating of the

most significant discoveries made throughout its history.

the periodic table of elements of the Russian scientist Dmitri

Ivanovich Mendeleyev (1869), without which all research in chemistry and nuclear physics would be very difficult.

periodic table: it was he who defined the "ideal degree

for Russian vodka - 40%.
In addition, the great scientist fascinated manufacture of luggage, and was an active member of the Union of Russian People "- better known as the
" Black Hundreds. "

- these things important for the development of the civilization

of the future event has occurred, according to the institute in Egypt in 1550 BC Well, in the history of Institute staff understand much worse than in the technologies and materials - otherwise they would know that first began to smelt iron by the Hittites, and it happened 300 years earlier in Asia Minor.

by the American scientists William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter

Bratteynom, which earned him the Nobel Prize.
Opening marked the beginning of the miniaturization of electronics, that's just why it is so undeservedly been forgotten radio tubes, from which it started and electronics?

in 2200 BC in the eastern Mediterranean.
For scientists it

is special material of construction of laboratory dishes, but for the masses - containers for beer and stronger drinks.

(1632- 1723) took the fifth place. He assembled

the instrument by which initially considered the flea, and then looked at a drop of water - and was horrified! Since then, this self-taught genius drank only tea and wine. 

applied to the XVIII century and a revolution in construction.

Incidentally, the newly 57-year-old Berlin architect Friedrich Lantz decided to make a revolution in production technology of the cement, suggesting make it out of the dog shit ...

300 BC in India, received the seventh place.
Needless to

say - steel blades and armor, and then steel guns, tanks and battleships played a crucial role in bringing together disparate empire into a single modern civilization.

more ancient weapons-grade material - copper.
At first it was

mined in the simplest way by finding nuggets of copper.
When they finished, around 5000 years ago in Asia Minor, someone's brightest minds have learned to smelt it from minerals.
One of the oldest areas of metallurgy was Donbass, where archaeologists have found copper mines and furnaces for smelting.

from iron, which has set up English engineer Henry Bessemer

(1813-1898). The method of obtaining the method martenovsky AIMMPE somehow ignored.