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one) The first drawings of rockets date from the 17th century.
In 1650, the work of Kazimieras Semenavičius (~ 1600 – ~ 1651) “Artis magnae artilleriae” (“Great artillery art”) appeared in Latin in Amsterdam. In the introduction of the work, the author himself indicated that he was a Lithuanian nobleman, studied at the University of Vilnius, served in the artillery of the Army of the Republic of the Two Nations. In a large and richly illustrated work, K. Semenavičius collected and systematized all the artillery knowledge known at the time. The book also pays a lot of attention to rockets: the author described the principles of operation of a multi-stage rocket, provided drawings representing this type of rocket.
The rockets, which started from the drawings of K. Semenavičius and followed similar principles, will rise into space just 300 years after the book’s publication. K. Semenavičius’s work has been used as the leading artillery textbook in Europe for two hundred years, and has not lost its importance since then. A few years ago, the Great Artillery Art was first published in Lithuanian.
2) SteampunkIn Samogitia – “Samogitian Garlėkis”, 1851.
In 1851, a small pamphlet in Polish “Parolot žmuidzina. Z swobodnej mysli Aleksandra Hryszkiewicza “(” Samogitian Steam. According to the free thought of Aleksandras Griškevičius “). The author of the book is Aleksandras Emanuelis Jonas Griškevičius (1809-1863), a small nobleman who at that time worked in the institutions of Kaunas, but he was interested in technology and aviation from an early age.
In the book, he described many aviation ideas, such as attaching human wings, flying an airplane with and without a balloon, and coming up with the idea of a steam propeller. The nobleman was not the only one, in his book he also commented on the “steam” projects of other European inventors. The author himself sent the brochure to homeowners, merchants and clergymen in the hope of receiving funds for the implementation of his project. Meanwhile, he urged skeptics of the idea to understand: “What if [t.y. Griškevičiaus mintys – A. D.] You will find it useless, leave it to your grandchildren, maybe in the future they will understand? ”, Wrote the inventor in his book.
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