Ivan Alexandrovsky was a talented engineer. He invented the submarine, the torpedo. But the scientist in tsarist Russia was practically not allocated funds, he was forced to do experiments with his own money and at the end of his life went bankrupt.
Ivan Aleksandrovsky was not only a photographer, artist, but also an engineer-inventor. He is the creator of the first Russian submarine and torpedo.
Biography
Ivan Alexandrovsky was born in the Courland province in 1817. He received a good education, graduating from a real school. This was in 1835. At the same time, the future inventor moved to St. Petersburg.
Already at this time, Ivan Alexandrovsky painted beautifully. Then he starts exhibiting his work. His talent was noticed, the young man was awarded the title of an out-of-class artist.
Career and creativity
The gifted young man began to realize his talents, to teach drawing and painting. He taught children in private, then he was invited to work in a St. Petersburg gymnasium. Then Ivan Fedorovich Aleksandrovsky improves his one more talent. He opens a photographic institution, which was very popular, such that he is invited to photograph the sovereign himself and persons close to the emperor.
In 1852, Ivan Fedorovich presented an apparatus for obtaining volumetric images by means of stereo photography. A little later, he presented these photos at one of the exhibitions. Such photographs of the inventor were the first such works in Russia.
The famous talented scientist created a torpedo and a submarine. In 1866, this submarine was built at the Baltic Shipyard. Then the sovereign visited her, who was told about the structure of this closed vessel.
After 11 years, I. F. invented diving equipment that was autonomous and operated on compressed air. He wanted to implement his invention as a universal military tool. So, a diver, carrying a cart loaded with air cylinders, could attach explosives to an enemy ship. People in special equipment could stay under water for up to 3 hours. But only a prototype was created, this idea was not introduced into mass production.
Ivan Alexandrovsky was a selfless inventor. He spent all his own funds on research, so by the end of his life he was ruined. When he became seriously ill, this talented man was admitted to a hospital for the poor. The talented inventor died alone, abandoned and forgotten by everyone in 1894.
Disbelief in the ability of the Russian people
It is no secret that in those days the tsarist government worshiped everything foreign. Aleksandrovsky was not given money so that he could improve the invented torpedo. The Ministry paid large sums of money to acquire the secret of the torpedo from the foreigner Whitehead, and he was also paid money for the fact that he then made prototypes. And the enthusiast Aleksandrovsky himself improved his torpedo, achieved an acceleration of its speed, which was almost the same as that of Whitehead, in other respects it was not inferior to foreign counterparts.
This is how the inventions of a unique Russian scientist were not appreciated due to lack of faith in the talent of Russian people.
