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Polish inventors - what have they ever given to the world?


boletus 30 | 1,361
9 Feb 2012 #91
Władysław Tryliński (1878-1956) - Polish transportation engineer. He invented and patented (1935) a technology of road paving with hexagonal pre-cast concrete-stone blocks - nicknamed "trylinka" after his surname.

The production of blocks was started in Brest (now Belarus) in the 1930s. The blocks were used to pave roads in Brest and other towns near Brest. The road Kobrin - Pinsk was paved with "trylinka". The pavement was strong enough to withstand numerous tanks and various heavy laden vehicles during the devastating war from 1941 till 1944. This type appeared to be the strongest of other types, invented in the 1930s. In the course of road reconstruction in the recent decade most of the trylinka pavement was replaced by asphalt. Fortunately, it remained, so far, in the Brest Fortress, in Pinsk, Stolin and some other places of Brest region.

region.brest-belarus.org/tri/tri.htm
region.brest-belarus.org/images/trilinka.jpg
Two blocks of trylinka by the road - after the pavement was replaced by asphalt.
region.brest-belarus.org/images/tryl_brest.jpg, Trylinka in the Brest Fortress
region.brest-belarus.org/stolin/hf2008/len8.jpg, Trylinka in Sovietskaya Street, Stolin
region.brest-belarus.org/stolin/p05.jpg Trylinka in old park Stolin
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Tryl_stol.jpg] Trylinka on the road Stolin-Pińsk
See also Polish wikipedia, with some technical details, pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trylinka
modafinil - | 419
9 Feb 2012 #92
Has anyone mentioned Sławomir Skręta, and his crimes against humanity?
He has a lot to answer for.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82awomir_Skr%C4%99ta
boletus 30 | 1,361
15 Feb 2012 #93
Sznajd model - one of the most popular physical models of social interaction. This belongs to a new branch of science known as sociophysics.

Józef Sznajd and his daughter Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron invented this model around year 2000. It is roughly based on the Ising model of interacting spins in ferromagnetic lattices but it is applied to social settings: politics, elections, advertisement, opinion forming and influencing, etc. The model is becoming more and more popular, and there are many publications in this area as recent as 2011. Just google: Sznajd model.

The people:
Prof. dr. Józef Sznajd (b.1947), Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław.
Dr hab. Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron (b.1971), Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wrocław

Introductory blog article: Push Me, Pull Me. How Peer Pressure Works Along Scientific Laws.
fressadi.com/blog/?p=298

The website of Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron:
ift.uni.wroc.pl/~kweron/index.html
with pointers to her publications and to a bunch of easy conference lectures.

You may also try arxiv.org e-print publications, by googling "sznajd model". These articles are relatively easy to understand.
Try for example: "Sznajd model and its applications" by K. Sznajd-Weron, 2005,
arxiv.org/abs/physics/0503239

[Specifically recommended for Gumishu, Ironside and all the people who think that Polish media is a king in forming political opinions. Actually not, this is only partially true. The model, its simulations and the real life comparisons, such as elections in Brazil, are quite interesting actually.]

Jerzy Rudlicki (1893-1977) was a Polish aerospace engineer who invented and in 1930 patented the V-tail, a.k.a. Butterfly tail (Polish patent# 15938) configuration for aircraft combining the ailerons and elevators in one system. See V-tail, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-tail
Cojestdocholery 2 | 1,191
28 Apr 2022 #94
A new invention in Poland:
An Intermetallic Molecular Nanomagnet with the Lanthanide Coordinated Only by Transition Metals.
Alien 20 | 4,732
30 Apr 2022 #95
The break between 2012 and 2022 is significant.
Alien 20 | 4,732
8 Feb 2024 #96
And still nothing new, and it's already 2024.
jon357 74 | 21,760
8 Feb 2024 #97
There are many Polish scientists and engineers who've moved abroad and work as part of larger teams elsewhere.

Therefore any invention they work on is likely to be credited to wherever the team as a whole is based.
Ironside 53 | 12,357
8 Feb 2024 #98
And still nothing new, and it's already 2024.

What is your problem? The whole oil industry and a kerosene lamp,
Technology that allowed for the production of a cheap and strong Grafen, Włodzimierz Strupiński.
A mine detector.
Just from the top of my head. What about you?
Alien 20 | 4,732
8 Feb 2024 #99
What about you?

What comes to mind is Ing. Novichok, who has about 40 patents... ah, but he doesn't admit to being Polish.
Novichok 4 | 7,357
8 Feb 2024 #100
What comes to mind is Ing. Novichok, who has about 40 patents.

I never said that I have about 40 patents. I said that my name was on 40 patents. Big difference...
jon357 74 | 21,760
8 Feb 2024 #101
my name was on

Because the products are BS detectors designed to be used against you by the general public.


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