Biography and Popov

Contacts A. Popov professor of physics from G. Popov read the report “On the attitude of metal powders to electric fluctuations”. During the report, A. Popov, with the help of his assistant, P. Rybkin demonstrated in the action of equipment for the unprofitable transmission of the sequence of the combination of electrical signals of various durations. The creation and public demonstration by Alexander Stepanovich Popov systems of radio communications on May 7 gave impetus to the emergence and development of many completely new scientific directions, creative ideas.

The first ten years since the years, radio engineering in Russia developed under the leadership of A. Popov and with its active participation. The invention of radio communications was that significant step in the development of electric communications, thanks to which he, a teacher of physics, higher mathematics and electrical engineering of the Ministry of Mine Officer of the IOC of the Marine Department, became a world -famous scientist.

The first serial radio equipment according to the system of A. Popov for the vessels of the Russian and French fleets was produced since the year of the French company Ducreta. In the year A. Popov A. The family was very friendly. The elders are Rafail's brother - and the sisters Catherine and Maria always helped the younger ones. Alexander, in turn, took care of the younger sisters-Anna-, August-and Capitoline-in addition to the main service, S.

Popov almost all his life was engaged in “teaching children to literacy and the law of God” at the Horman School and at home school for girls, which he contained at his own expense. For his diligent and useful service, he was awarded many thanks, bronze and gold pectoral crosses and the Order of St. Vladimir 4th degree Anna Stepanovna also taught for free she taught girls-shoes needlework, for which she received gratitude to the spiritual consistory.

The manifestation of Alexander’s interest in technology was facilitated by the fact that in the circle of familiar family the Popovs there were many engineers, graduates of the St. Petersburg Mining Institute. He visited mines and workshops with interest, he himself tried to make various mechanisms. All his life Popov was grateful to the husband of the sister of Ekaterina V.

Slovtsov -, the priest, like his father, who taught him the carpentry, locksmith and turning affairs. In the year, Popov entered the Perm Theological Seminary. In these educational institutions, training for children of the spiritual estate was free, which was essential for a large family of Popovs. Religious education instilled in Alexander Popov high moral qualities, repeatedly marked by people who knew him.

The general education classes of the seminary, which gave knowledge in the amount of the classical gymnasium with the right to enter the university, Popov graduated with honors of the year. In September, Alexander Popov entered the Physics and Mathematics Department of St. Petersburg University. In Petersburg, where at that time Rafail lived, who graduated from the historical and philological faculty of St.

Petersburg University, he came with the sisters of Anna and Augustus. Anna received a secondary medical education, and Augustus graduated from the Academy of Arts. Alexander Popov received a scholarship only in the first and third courses and solved his financial problems with tutoring. Among the professors of Popov in these years were: mathematicians P. Chebyshev and A. Korkin, physicists F.

Petrushevsky, P. Fan-der-Flit, I. Borgman and O. Kvolson, chemists of A. Butlerov and D. from the lectures of I. Borgman Alexander Popov learned about the electrodynamic theory of English physicist D. Maxwell, whose fundamental work is "a treatise on electricity and magnetism" was published in the year. In the year, a VI electrical department was created in the Russian Technical Society.

At the end of March of the year, the world's first electrical exhibition opened in a salt town on the shores of Fontanka. Student A. Popov was invited to work at the exhibition “Explanatory”, thanks to which he studied everything related to the development and state of electrical engineering by then. Of great interest to the public was a demonstration of communications of the telegraph apparatus of Shilling and Jacobi, Morse, Siemens and Wittston, telephones of Bella, Golubitsky and Vyuspions.

In the exposition, almost all types of dynamo and alternators developed by that time were presented. Here, Popov met leading electrical engineers D. Lachinov, A. Lodygin, V. Chikolev, P. Zaborokovov, listened to their public lectures. In May, the first issue of Electricity magazine was published. In the same year, the Partnership "Electrotechnik" was organized, performing work on the electrical lighting of streets, gardens and public institutions of St.

Petersburg. Popov worked in the partnership by Monter. In the 4th year, he helped professor of physics as an assistant. Thus, by the end of training at the University, Popov mastered not only very extensive fundamental theoretical knowledge, but also gained thorough practical experience. In November, A. Popov graduated from the University and after the discente of the dissertation on the topic “On the principles of Dynamo -electrical DC dynamo” January.His first scientific article on the materials of the dissertation was published in the September issue of the magazine "Electricity" for the year.

By decision of the Academic Council, A. Popov was left at the university to prepare for a professor. The Petersburg Physical School, led by the professor of F. Petrushevsky, brought up in students the desire for a practical application of the achievements of world science, the results of their own research. Popov always strove for serious scientific work, for the lesson of which the necessary conditions were the presence of an appropriate laboratory base and his own stable financial situation.

In the summer of the year, he accepted the invitation to take the place of the teacher and the head of the physical office in the mining officer class in Kronstadt, which had a well -equipped physical office and a good library. Popov began work on free hiring with salary about rubles a month, led the practical classes on galvanism, and gave lectures on higher mathematics.

Working with marine officers, Alexander Stepanovich realized that in the context of the rapid development of the fleet, the solution to the problem of information exchange became more and more relevant. Popov married Raisa Alekseevna Bogdanova, the daughter of the sworn attorney. He met her when he worked as a tutoring and, in particular, prepared Raisa for admission to the highest women's medical courses at the Nikolaev military hospital.

At the end of the course of G. in July-August A. He developed a methodology for photometric studies, designed and manufactured a photometer for photography of a sunny crown. By tradition, the teachers of the officer classes gave public lectures on the latest achievements of science in the Marine Officer Assembly. The lectures of A. Popov were distinguished by the current content and excellent demonstration of physical experiments that made an unforgettable impression on the audience.

Thanks to high erudition, A. Popov soon became one of the leading specialists of the naval department, a member of the Marine Technical Committee and was regularly involved in solving complex practical issues. From the years in the summer months, free from classes in the IOC, A. Popov headed the power station serving the Nizhny Novgorod Fair. With his arrival, the station’s work improved markedly.

Experience at the Nizhny Novgorod power plant gave Popov the material for compiling a textbook on electric vehicles published in the year by the Marine Department. At the opening of the XVI art and industrial exhibition, which took place in the presence of Emperor Nicholas II, a festive illumination made a great impression on all those present. Popov was a member of the jury of the electrical department of this exhibition, for which he was awarded the gratitude of the Minister of Finance S.

In addition, he himself was a member of the exhibition - his thunderstorm was awarded the diploma. In December, Popov began combining work in the IOC with the work of a full -time teacher of physics and electrical engineering at the Technical School of the Marine Department, located near the IOC. The position gave the right to order and retirement of the length of service.

When enrolling in the school, he signed an oath of obligation, in other words, he took the oath "to serve correctly and not in -season and to keep all entrusted tieisms tightly." The beginning of the works of A. Popov in the field of wireless communication dates back to the year. In the year, two articles of German physics G. Hertz on the results of his experimental works were published, confirming the justice of theory D.

Popov lectured a cycle of lectures on the spread of electromagnetic waves with a demonstration of the experiments of Hertz, united by the general name “The latest studies between light and electrical phenomena”. The demonstration of the experiments was so bright and convincing that the command instructed him to give a lecture in St. Petersburg in the Admiralty for a wider circle of listeners - marine officers.

According to the recollections of contemporaries, Popov already spoke about the use of “Hertz rays” or “Electric rays” for signaling at a distance without wires.