Biography of Popov AS

Alexander Stepanovich Popov - - Russian physicist and electrical engineer, professor, radio inventor. Kronstadt is the birthplace of the greatest invention, about which the author of this invention A. Popov told his closest assistant and friend P. Rybkin: “We made a discovery, the whole meaning of which is hardly anyone will immediately understand. These few weeks that we have taken with our device, believe me, are the most significant time in our whole life, his father was a priest of the village Church.

The path to higher education for Sasha lay through a spiritual school, where children were trained for children for free. The first classes at school brought Sasha disappointment. Mathematics and physics, which were very interested in, were almost not studied here, and he had to engage in these disciplines on his own. At 18, he decided to go to the Physics and Mathematics Department of St.

Petersburg University. 2 younger sisters switched to its dependent. To get the funds for himself and the sisters, he had to become a tutor. Constant malnutrition and lack of sleep, frequent colds shook him already poor health, but Popov did not pay attention to this. As a 4th year student, he was appointed an assistant, which was a rarity, since usually assistants were appointed from the most talented graduates.

At the last courses of the University, Popov almost refused lessons and began to work as an electrical engineer. He took part in the electrical equipment of Nevsky Ave. Fonets installed on the avenue feed on the current from the floating power plant equipped on the barge, which was installed on the Moika River. Work at this power plant began Popov his electrical activity, which later gave him the title of honorary electrical engineer.

Soon he entered the service in the newly open production partnership "Electrotechnik". Even a student Popov gave lessons to the daughter of a lawyer Bogdanov - Raisa Alekseevna. The student was only a year younger than her teacher. They became friends. When Raisa Alekseevna entered medical courses, her father suddenly died. The young purs user and her mother were left without a livelihood.

This misfortune brought young people even closer. In the city and moved to Kronstadt, where Popov began his work as a teacher in the mining officer class, who was at that time the only place in Russia where it was possible to conduct scientific work in his specialty. Popov made a report "On the attitude of metal powders to electric fluctuations." At the same time, he demonstrated his device.

This world's first radio was born in Kronstadt. Radio officers were carried out from the very beginning under the supervision and ordered of the Ministry of the Sea and were used to the benefit of the fleet. In Kronstadt, in the first years of A. Popov, a special commission was appointed to find new alarm methods. Inventing the first radio receiver, Ale Xander Stepanovich from the very beginning sought to solve this problem in relation to the requests of the fleet.

Experiments with him were carried out first in the physical office, then in the garden of the mine officer class, at the distance of the fathom. Here the antenna was first used. In the year, radio communications between ships in the Kronstadt raid are installed. Three years Popov and his assistants conducted experiments on radio telegraphs between ships and the shore; ships between forts Konstantin and Milyutin; Then - between Kronstadt and the village of Lebyazhye.

In the process of these experiments in the summer of the year, the possibility of receiving signals by ear was opened. The telegraph apparatus replaced the telephone tube.